I wonder if part of the reason so many gen x/millennials have time blindness with the early 2000s ('2007 was three years ago', etc) is because major moments from our childhood/young adulthood haven't resolved?
We're still venerating everything tied to 9/11
We're still in Afghanistan, still in Iraq
There's soldiers who are gonna get sent to Afghanistan that weren't even alive in 2001 for gods sake
We're all still in the Great Recession, we all are in a financial arrested development and won't get out of debt for years, if not our entire lives for some of us
We were the first generation of kids dying in school shootings, and nothing has changed there for our own children
On one level, the things around my life at 15 are the same things still in my life now as an adult
And the real kicker is, no one in charge seems to think these things are problems so they don't even get discussed much less addressed
We're just going to be in forever wars, and drowning in debt if we survive school