Proof 90's was best time to be alive

I'm a child of the 70's and 80's and I'll take that era over any. Political correctness didn't exist. If someone really offended you, you were free to handle your business. Bullying was around but if you fought back, eventually the bully left you alone. You actually had to talk to people or write letters which is more personal. There was no internet so no spoilers. For example on this, when the US hockey team beat the Russians, the game was actually played in the late afternoon. The only people who knew the outcome were those who were in Lake Placid. Hanging out at the mall was not only a thing, it was a cool thing. This season of Stranger Things really brought back a lot of memories. We could disagree politically without ad hominem attacks. Both Republicans and Democrats were patriotic. You actually learned practical things in school(we had to take shop, home ec, sewing, ect.). You could go down many streets in America and see kids playing pick up baseball, basketball, football, street hockey. You couldn't hide behind a keyboard warrior. If you were going to be a douche to someone, you'd better be able to back it up. (This is really going to ruffle some feathers). You could literally go to K-Mart, Sears, any hardware store and buy a firearm and kids would have shotguns and rifles on the gunrack in their trucks parked in the school parking lot and guess what? School shootings didn't exist. Mass shootings didn't exist. It didn't break your family budget to go to the movies, concerts, or sporting events. Customer service was actually a thing. So much more but yeah, living back then was waaaayyyy better than today.

Oh, and television was a million times better. Funny, when I was growing up, we(in the Philadelphia area) had channels 3, 6, 10, 12, 17, 29, 48 and there was more to watch back then than today with literally hundreds of channels to choose from. And there's a reason why classic artists outdraw new artists. Because today's music sucks on ice. 

The last half of the 90s were the absolute best in every facet like music, movies, some literature, technology (we could do without smartphones), politics, religion, race relations and so forth.

As a western child of the 80's, the decade when all of civilization catered to our every whim, coming of age during the 90's was pretty good too.
We're talking post-Cold War/pre-9/11 when the full potential of global calmness (as could be) was at its apex... & likely never to be experienced ever again. Ever.

Music was great, TV was fun, Movies were enjoying critical renaissance... & we were making the internet what we wanted it to be before Zuckerberg began selling our data for billions.

Yes, this.  I personally prefer the 70s and guess what I was born in 1970, so...    

Sometimes I think I would even prefer living in the 40s, 50s or 60s to today.   Today's society just seems so cold and ugly.