In previous posts, I said it is not good to look back, but it is also fun to be nostalgic of the times of my youth. Being a kid around the year 2000 was nothing out of the ordinary; I remember kids used to play with stuff such as Furby and Pokemon, but life in general hasn't changed that much. The economy, even though we are in recessionary times, is actually a lot higher now than it was in 2000, but the unemployment is a lot lower - about 4%; now we are squeaking about 9-10% unemployment but it might be something with the retiring Baby Boomers and people choosing not to work.
But when I was a little kid; I did worry about the economics or anything like that; I was just a kid and that is what I should be; a kid. I remember there was a lot of good music by the turn of the millennium and it was made for kids about my age. I remember we had the "boy bands" such as *NSYNC and Backstreet Boys,and we had a bunch of pop sluts such as Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, but I wasn't really influenced by them too much. I didn't get why they had to show off too much skin; people were exposing midriff on TV every time you turn around and I seen the teenagers were trying to expose midriff as well. 2000 was not all about sugar coated pop; we seem to have more sugar coated pop in 2011-2012 than we have in 2000, so not that much has changed. 2000 was a time when a lot of rap music was starting to come on the radio, and we have crazy guys such as Emimen who were shooting their mouths off. I did not care for much of the rap and a lot of it was inappropriate for children; even the "pop music" was inappropriate and a bad influence on children. You see 7 year old sluts trying to look like Britney Spears which was getting a little bit out of hand.
But 2000 was not a downfall of society as much as I thought. There was good music and good entertainment that we seem to be lacking today, but there are many things about today that seem to be better than it was at the turn of the millennium. I did not have the luxury of high speed internet, or even the internet back in 2000, but I was exposed to the internet and computers at a very young age, about 5, so this digital era is not a complete stranger to me. Now we have luxury of the internet where you can look back in the era of the "good old days" by watching YouTube videos. But I shouldn't look back too much, because there are many greater things coming; probably a time that is going to be more fun than the turn of the millennium.
We had entered the new millennium, but I don't think we have truly entered the new millennium. The internet had gotten a little more advanced; but I don't think the internet is going to progress really much further. We got the concept of the internet established of this free platform world and people seem to be hooked to this free platform world. But this world is virtual but we haven't really entered the true 21st century. The concept of the internet was a start of a new world - a interconnected, seamless world where anything is possible but this society only works on the Web. Now lets make the real world like the internet - a more seamless world where you have a lot more free will than ever before.
That's what I think the world of the new millennium is eventually going to enter - a society that is a lot like the internet. A free, open source society where you don't have much regulation and you have the freedom to express yourself; the freedom to learn, to invent, to be creative without much rules. But we haven't gotten there yet but we will. We have the internet, which is basically a dream come true for the Founding Fathers of America and it goes with our Constitution. But now we have to make society a lot more seamless like the internet, and the internet with a more free society is probably going to do it. This concept was starting to kick in around the year 2000, but after the 9/11 attack, people started to become more "afraid" which is a good thing, but maybe we have overdone it. Now, with the rise of homeland security (overdone, COME ON!) and this "homeland security" is starting to become environmental and health regulations as well, like some terrorist is going to spread another swine flu.
But we can be pretty optimistic and I should not look back. 2000 may be the chronological beginning of the new millennium and we have got the concept, but I don't think anything "millennial" has entered yet.
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