So let’s break this down:
2020-2022: Deadly pandemic, riots, police brutality, lowest economic rate, political division, Russia v. Ukraine war, many celebrities dying left and right
2023: abortion rights are being stripped away, Global Warming
2024: the Orange Bastard is reelected (idk how or why)
2025: Fire erupted in Cali, TikTok “Ban”, ICE Agent Takeover, Longest Government Shutdown in American History, Charlie Kirk Assassination, 3 school shootings in under a DAY, Erika Kirk Rally, 2 national guards attacked (one pronounced dead), heavily redacted Epstein documents
The trauma that the 2020s caused us will be permanent and painful. We’re literally halfway through and I can tell this decade will bring A LOT OF PARANOIA.
Yeah, this whole decade so far has just been shit, imo. And 2025 is easily the worst year since 2021 as well, imo.
No, you're not the only one, this is bad....
as a aussie, i gotta mention the 2019-2020 fires, red sun n smoke in the air for what felt like months. now the 2025 bondi shooting, worst terror attack we've had since 1996, not to mention the endless copycat threats that keep goin around 🤦♂️
Many celebrities dying happens every year man
The rest of this decade is gonna be brutal - especially for classic rock fans.
Classic rock fans have been dealing with this since it was just "rock"
Well, yeah, except now they’re dying of old age not drugs.
It's more stunning to learn who's still alive and performing. Chubby Checker at 84, Willie Nelson at 92. I saw Iggy Pop do a show a few months ago at 78 that I couldn't physically pull off in my 30s.
Jagger and Keith Richards are both 82. I mean they look kinda old but still rocking.
Ditto for Roger Daltry (81) and Pete Townsend (80).
“Hope I die before I get old” LOL!
I'm not sure of the others, but Mick is renown for his fitness regime - he works hard to stay in shape, and it shows in the energy he keeps bringing to the stage.
Transmute don’t absorb. Remember a lot of it is built to make you feel this way. Don’t let the bastards win
How do you know they haven’t ALREADY won
You have to remember evil and corrupt people are still people. Just flesh and bones. Don’t make your enemies more powerful than they. Wizard of oz style
Heavily influencers with a shit ton of wealth too
That’s only because we’re playing a game under certain rules. Those rules aren’t forever. And things come undone fast. All empires collapse.
And who’s to also say that we still wouldn’t be divided
You have to decide what future and present you want to be part of and build. Pain and suffering will always be present, might as well do it in the name of something greater than yourself. Action is the antidote to anxiety.
I was actually far more traumatized by the 2000s. As horrible as this decade is, I feel like it's just the continuation of a mostly downward spiral we've been on since 9/11, I've kind of learned to accept the ongoing decline as the new normal
Whereas, in the 2000s, everything that happened -9/11, the Iraq War, the excesses of the Bush Administration, the GFC, the rise of right-wing extremism across the globe (albeit in a milder form than it is today), the London bombings and so on -just felt like it came out of nowhere after the peace, prosperity, stability, optimism, and hopefulness that had engulfed the western world throughout the late 1980s-9/11. It felt so new, frightening and traumatizing to me, it severely affected my mental well-being. I just see this era as a continuation and a legacy of that time.
It also helps that I think we have a good government in my country, that has provided us with a great deal of stability and good policy in the midst of all this global mess. Which we didn't have here for much of the 2000s
Based on if you focus on what you like or dislike, you can turn any decade into the best or worst of all time. What the 2020s really are is a time when cultures are so incredibly subtle, nuanced and varied that it seems there's no culture at all.
The world and our country has had ups and downs all throughout history. I think that among other things that it's rather egomaniacal to say that this is a "traumatizing" decade, as much as I agree that it definitely is a crappy decade.
I don't know how old are you, but im 21, and honestly, I think most of these are pretty usual or "normal". It's just that we were kids and we didn't pay attention any of the paranoia that 911, the recession, or the different conflicts caused years ago. Obviously the whole Covid pandemic was one of its kind, but I think the other stuff existed in any other decades in different form as well. But yeah, it sucks.
Worst since the 70s
No, you are not the only one. Far from it in fact.
BTW: Abortion rights were taken away in 2022.
its crazy to think that my personal 2010s were so much worse than my personal 2020s so it feels like this for me
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Yea i call this the decade of fear it seems like anything can happen
The Roe v. Wade overturning happened in 2022, not 2023. If I wanted to add 2023-specific bad events aside from global warming, I would add the start of the Gaza War in 2023, the largest bank collapse since 2008 (such as SVB), the rise in inflation (although it was a byproduct of what happened in 2020-2022, the Turkey-Syria earthquake, and a growing right-wing backlash towards "wokeness."
It’s really annoying how even the place I visit to dig comfy in memories became political now
This decade has nothing on the 60s/early 70s. I don't think most people (even boomers alive then) could handle a week in that period
Wdym
Did you see the stuff I named
That was the worst time. I was a little kid but it was assuredly the worst time. About 1968-1975 it felt like the world was imploding.
You had left wing groups that put most of today's radical right wing groups to shame. The Weather Underground...Symbionese Liberation Army, Black Panthers. If a bomb went off in a government building, it was called "Tuesday". Not to mention the raw, open hate and violence you saw every day on the streets. Terrible time. 2025 is utopia compared to that.
My fourth grade teacher was a colleague of the superintendent the SLA assassinated. It was a dark day when she explained she was going to his funeral.
Marcus Foster in Oakland?
Yes
Yeah, they pretty much screwed themselves from that. Patty Hearst in 74 didn't help.
If the SLA existed today, they'd be a joke...like the Proud Boys and such. Grievances and not much else to offer.
They were insane.
No, you are not alone.
2021 was the most traumatic year for me this decade so far. Got permanently injured by the C19 “treatment” that I was coerced into taking otherwise I’d get kicked out of uni. This incident permanently changed my view on society and the government as well.
Life has been hell for me since 2012.
Nope you are the only victim in all that
New here? I got my first real news trauma from columbine. Shook me to mg core. Then 9/11 then by the wars in the Middle East I was getting pretty numb to news trauma. Now it all just feels like nothing.
No of course you're not the only one
Definitely not. Between all of the things you’ve mentioned, and things I’ve just gone through personally over the last 5 or so years(my mom developing a severe memory impairment out of the blue 10 years ago that’s gotten worse, a difficult relationship, my own health struggles and my father being diagnosed with brain cancer) and several other life events, I’m definitely traumatized
You forgot the inflation
I think everyone who isn’t a complete and utter shitgibbon has been traumatized by this decade.
That's life.
Gaza
Easily the worst decade in modern history.
Make no mistake this decade has been spooky
Rage against the machine said "all of which, are American dreams", which seems apt. This is what happens when you guys abdicate your progressive approach. So yes I hate to say it but you need to get back to leading the free world.
No. Been in therapy. This is a bad time.
You forgot to mention Israel's genocide in Gaza and the Sudan genocide as well
You're traumatized the way I was traumatized, as core Millennial by the 2008 to 2011 era. I honestly thought that we were headed for the 1930's, economically at least, again in America!