Nostalgia

I loved the music, but I didn't care too much about the clothes, especially towards the end of the decade.  I guess the reason that I have fond memories of the 80s , is because that's when The Berlin Wall came down.

I loved the music, but I didn't care too much about the clothes, especially towards the end of the decade.  I guess the reason that I have fond memories of the 80s , is because that's when The Berlin Wall came down.

Didn’t it get the nickname “The decade that taste forgot”. 

The fall of the wall was indeed good but for Eastern Europe it has since then a story of conflict piled upon conflict. I read somewhere that during the 20C the number months when there wasn’t a war somewhere on the globe is numbered in single digits. This should not be surprising as it is what happens over and over, history inevitably repeats itself with humans, I don’t believe we sre capable of learning the lessons, and neither democracy nor dictatorships end well. 

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The Berlin Wall coming down was good, so was the opening up of the former USSR and its componenet coutries getting their freedom. But other things happening, riots, Thatcherite politics, yuppies and the excess and indulgence of the age no, I didn't like those at all.