Interesting that Point Break (1991) and The Matrix (1999) book ended the decade. Point Break focuses on white 20 something kids that dropped out and started surfing, the The Matrix focuses on a 30ish white guy going through an existential crisis. At the beginning of the 90s there was still some hope, that a person could find a small counter-culture and create if not a wealthy life, of something satisfying. By 1999 all hope was gone.

I looked it up, Six Degrees of Separation was inspired from a real incident in the early 1980s. I was wondering why it felt like something from a decade earlier.

Wayne’s World was trying to recapture Mike Myers’ childhood in the 70s and early 80s. So doesn’t capture spirit of the 90s.

Biodome

Sadly this might be the most 90s of 90s movie. Others like Terminator are sequels, or movies like You’ve Got Mail are scripts written 10 years prior. Biodome is a time capsule of mid 1990s.

That’s the point.

Felt like it was from the 70s.

That was a throw back to the 1980s Brat Pack, so you can group in the late 80s.

Along with Falling Down, watch Boyz n the Hood https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101507/ and Juice https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104573/

All really the same story of the grungy 1990s.

Falling Down captures the downturn in the economy of the 1990s and the grunge of it.

You’ve Got Mail almost feels like a 1980s movie.

Point Break or Speed

I hate FB marketplace, I’ve stopped buying and selling anything. People don’t show up to buy something, people forgot that they listed something when you contact them.

One problem is trying to discern people who have truly religious beliefs, vs. people that are lazy lairs.

I think Trump supporters that talk of him being chosen by God are lazy lairs. They have a racist world view, can’t justify it, so bring God into the argument. They have no real interest into looking deeply at questions or reality; they laugh at those that do.

I think that there is a place in the human brain that is responsible for ‘spirituality’. Attempts at stimulating it can produce deep religious thoughts https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_helmet

Maybe it evolved as a buffer to store random ideas we couldn’t comprehend. Maybe as a social creator we need a section of our brain to produce spiritual ideas, to help with social cohesion?

Many people will simply abandon their desktops and laptops, and strictly use their smartphone.