>>715826976
If I could freeze things in terms of culture, media, games, all that, it'd be 2007-2012/2013. Maybe move it down to 2004-ish, not at all move it past 2013.
>>715829262
2008 was odd for me in that I was young enough to be insulated and my family well off enough to be as well. So whereas we really felt/feel the inflation era back then it was more familial crises we got going on.
>>715829537
I don't like people glibly using a pithy quote to sound wise, but look up the Gandalf quote to Frodo(?). The whole
>I wish I was not around to see such things/be in such an age
And gandalf telling him that is what all wish who live to see such times, all that is left to them is to do what they can with the time they are given.
For me, my imagination is my own and nobody can take that away. Music and that's all I need to work with it. The only threat to that is stressors of job/money/ect but if I can deal with those then I do not need any new books, any new movies, any new games.
So maybe you need to just focus on older books you like, older games, movies, whatever. Don't be on social media. Idle hands devils plaything, whenever I am productive doing something be it writing or modding I am happier than when I am browsing and listening to all the evils that
>>715841787
correctly spelled out. And realizing those FOMO/FUD/add-inducing bullshit wants my attention. So why give it to them. Don't play their game and just leave their marketplace.
