Freechoice said:
But we can objectively say a lot of things were shitty about the 80's.
The Reagan administration
The Smurfs
Retarded action movies
My Little Pony (it wasn't FIM)
Lennon was killed
AIDS pandemic began
Now look at the 90's
Nickelodeon had great programming.
Cartoon Network had great programming.
The internet was becoming mainstream.
N64, Dreamcast, PS1
Star Trek: TNG started being good in the 90's
Simpsons was at its height in the 90's.
The Matrix
That's just a few things.
Look at all of this stuff.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1990s
It's fucking amazing.
Also, That 80's Show failed hard.
That 80's show failed not because the 80s sucked, but it was a terrible idea.
You are making the same mistake that Moviebob and other nostalgia people are doing. You are stacking the deck trying to make the argument more one sided better than it actually is. You are taking one decade's highlights and comparing them to another's lowlights.
Or as someone so elegantly put it. "Yes, I know there were bad things from those decades. I just choose not think about them."
No decade is perfect. It only seems perfect when you look at them through the lens of nostalgia.
Also, if you think about it. here are some bad things about the 90s
Boy Bands
Watergate
FoxNews becoming a political force
Right Wing Punditry in general
Dawson's Creek
7th Heaven
MTV becoming less Diverse, more willing to listen to corporate interests
First Gulf War
Waco Texas