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This works on longer scales, but I have to be honest with you, I don't know if me looking back at the late 90s and going "yeah, that went wrong at some point" is just my generation's version of being nostalgic for a time where you were oblivious to the crappy stuff or a fairly objective assessment of modern world trends.
I DID grow up in what amounted to a developing nation, several of my neighbors couldn't read or write and I didn't have a telephone or a VCR until well into the nineties, but also... you know, the post 9-11 period doesn't seem like a particular uptrend for civilization, in hindsight.
The Matrix had it right.
1999, turn of the millenium.
Zenith of human society, all downhill from there.
Unless you were gay, or female, non-white or lived in Eastern Europe, Asia (minus Japan), India, Africa, South America or Central America.