Looking back on the 90's

Don't laugh, but I miss the 90's.  It was my childhood, my good ole days, and the era that shaped how I see the world.  I look back on the 90's (as far as my childhood home county [you fuckers aren't gonna trick me into giving you my personal personals that easy hardy har har]) as being the last era where people weren't alienated from one another.  The 90's for me was a time of mom and pop businesses, good tunes, and sweet VHS renting.  I hope to take the lessons I learned in the 90's and apply them today and hopefully amp up the spirit of this era.  The zeitgeist of today is one of isolation and fear.  It is one of despair, hopelessness, and a total lack of understanding the world has people other than ourselves.  Looking back, even the darkest parts of the 90's I experienced seem golden.  Maybe its because I only seem to remember the good, or the fact that I am romanticizing it the way cheap dimestore novels portray Fabio.  Who knows.  I do know that I will always treat the 90's as the measuring stick I compare all my future decades to...