098 - How We Are Remembered

As an amateur Pop Culture Historian, I spent a good chunk of my highschool life wondering just how my generation would be seen by future generations. It all started with the popularity of "Fifties Day" type dances and other events where we were encouraged to dress-up like people from a different decade. Fifties Day would be poodle skirts and leather jackets, which would always make my Mom complain "We didn't dress like that - NO ONE dressed like that!"


Sixties Day would be the day to dress like a hippie, which would make my Sister complain "We didn't dress like that - NO ONE dressed like that!"


...and near the end (right around 1991) we started having a Seventies Day where you apparently dressed like a pimp or Las Vegas Elvis which, as a connoisseur of 1970's culture, made ME complain "That's not how they dressed in the 70's - NO ONE dressed like that!"


And so with these iconic images of the various decades in mind, I often wondered just *how* future generations would remember the 1980's and 1990's. "There's nothing to exaggerate here - we just dress NORMAL" I would think. I mean, we had stuff like Happy Days and Grease and Woodstock and Sonny & Cher and Saturday Night Fever to look back on and get our examples from, but what would The Future look to when mocking MY origin era?

Found it. THIS VIDEO from 1991 is what The 1980's and 1990's should always be remembered as. ALWAYS.