IRB Media Summary of Chuck Klosterman's The Nineties

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Book Preview: #1 The Mandela Effect is a collective delusion in which large swaths of the populace misremember a catalog of indiscriminate memories. The most unhinged explanation involves quantum mechanics and the possibility of alternative realities.#2 The soft differences between life in the 2020s and life in the 1990s are difficult to explain to people who did not experience both periods as adults. The dissonance between consumer life in 1990 and consumer life in 2020 is profound.#3 Generations are often wrong, but they do have one function: to allow people to express prejudice towards large groups of people without any risk. If new generations aren't soft and lazy, something has gone wrong.#4 Generation X, which consisted of Americans born between 1966 and 1981, was the least annoying generation because they were the smallest. They also complained the least pedantically compared to the other generations.