When do you think "Current Year" began?

[Kabuki Actor]

Eh probably at the French Revolution.

 

[FrigginWeeb]

2014 because as we all know, all roads lead to GamerGate

I can't wait until 2024 happens and election shit gets blamed on a decade old internet dunking

 

[ClownBrew]

Powerlevel: oldfag. The revolution happened in 1990. We are in Current Year 31.

 

[Billy Beer]

The 90s was a beta test for beta faggots but it never took off because people were happy go lucky, especially towards the back end and the impending millennium celebrations. Once 1999 was over and a new millennium started, it turned south, slowly but surely. 2008 being the final nail in the coffin. 2016 was just the worms feeding on the corpse of happiness.

I always contrast pop movements with the spice girls. They promoted girl power, but it was more about being free and happy, and that women and men can be happy together. Now the female popstars of the day just push degeneracy and crude, pointless lyrics. The rejection of men and the atmosphere of 'we don't need man unless we wanna fuck' has split the atom of the nuclear family. And like splitting a real atom, it has left a destructive, toxic mess in its wake

 

[Lord Neeba]

Honestly, I think the roots go back further - "Current Year" is just an evolution of "Current Decade". Maybe it's my age, but I remember a ton of people saying "It's the 90s!" to justify all sorts of insane behaviour and views.

In Walt Disney's 1959 film Sleeping Beauty, there's a joke where the prince character doesn't want to accept the arranged marriage his father wants, and says, "Father, you're living in the past. This is the 14th century!" So the sentiment goes back to at least the 1950s.

 

[ToroidalBoat]

One thing I miss about the pre-Current Year world is how media* wasn't so divisive and manipulative. It's really draining to keep up with the news because of endless attempts to BS into believing The Narrative.

*(and social media which wasn't as much of a thing yet)

 

[mindlessobserver]

I've figured it out. The current year began when people began speaking lies openly and only thinking the truth, but never speaking it.

 

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[ToroidalBoat]

Facebook now has warnings against "extremist groups" claiming that they "manipulate", and recommends getting "support from experts". Sounds to me like the woke cult and the powers behind them are warning against "straying from The Narrative" and recommend brainwashing from the tech priests of Science™.

Would one have seen such attempts at suppressing wrongthink before Current Year?

Cyberpunk dystopia.