The Nineties: A Book

by Chuck Klosterman

but also the end to an age when we controlled technology more than technology controlled us.

Dead on a great descriptor for the 90s (he unironically posts online)

No movie or director influenced nineties film culture as much as the advent and everywhereness of the video store.

And in my Endless Video blue shirts and khakis I served in that army

It was now possible to know a little bit about everything without remembering anything.

It seems foreign to me now to not look up anything and everything I don’t know when it comes up in conversation

The past is a mental junkyard, filled with memories no one remembers.

Is this insightful or meaningless?

it’s increasingly difficult to understand why TV was considered so inferior to not just film, but to almost every other variety of entertainment from this era. The prevalence of that dismissive view clearly had no relationship to its popularity—statistically speaking, television was more popular than everything. But here again: In the nineties, that was its own kind of problem. If everyone enjoyed something, how good could it possibly be?

Maybe we dont feel like that today because we have thd moknkey/Shakespeare thing going on. There is just SO much TV content available now, by default enough of it is good enough to bouy the whole medium

Part of the complexity of living through history is the process of explaining things about the past that you never explained to yourself.

Is this insightful or meaningless? Part II

But the future can’t exist until the present is the past.

Is this insightful or meaningless? Part III