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Splash No. 225 - “90s Kid”

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Subscribe Past Issues RSS Translate View this email in your browser “90s Kid” I’ve been reading The Nineties by Chuck Klosterman, which surprisingly talks about the 1990s. The book attempts to answer the question “what were the 90s?” As you’d expect, it’s difficult to summarize an entire decade, not only in the major moments but also in its culture and the stark differences from previous and ensuing decades. One part in particular stood out talked about knowledge during the decade: "It was harder to prove what was true. It was harder to disprove what was false. As a society, we’ve elected to ignore that many people of the nineties—many modern people, many of whom are still very much alive—were exceedingly comfortable not knowing anything for certain. Today, paraphrasing the established historical record or questioning empirical data is seen as an ideological, anti-intellectual choice. But until the very late nineties, it was often the only choice available." Of course, this was t

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