The teens.
The nature of global politics was defined and cemented in 2001 (9/11) and 2003 (Gulf II). I, and milllions of others who protested, knew that the outcome of Gulf II would be a clusterfuck that would define our position in the world for decades to come.
00 - 10 Where's Bin laden
10 - 20 Durka Durka everywhere
20 - 30... Durka's under the bed
130 - 40 Look everyone we've created a
new bogeyman!
40 - 50 Where's the bogeyman hiding...
1) You think the TSA shining a torch up your ass is bad now. Wait until a combination of 'big data' and 'in order to
further secure your freedom from Al-Qaeda-on-steroids ISIS' every citizen is further pointlessly scrutinized simply for existing.
I remember people thinking that they are progressive because of what year it was, like we were living in the future so things should automatically be different. For example, "Come on, it's 2014 for crying out loud (or FFS for you trendy folks). We should already be xyz." The present never seems to be good enough for what we hoped it to be in the past.
That's the problem with 'progressive' politics, there are no end goal(s), we just keep 'progressing'.
The bullshit never ends.