little_tippler

I have heard it called The Noughties and I like the name.

Main events/markers I can think of:

Bush and the War on Terrorism. 9/11. Afghanistan and Iraq Wars. The economic growth of China, and now India. The boom in the art world of art from non-Western Cultures. Global warming. mp3 players. Hip hop and Emo becoming mainstream. Teen pop rock, Britney Spears-style. Life of Pi. The Davinci code. Blogging. Katrina. The Asia Tsunami. Wireless internet. Google, Amazon, and Ebay. itunes. Pen drives. The Human Genome Project. The Space Shuttle crash. The election of Barack Obama. Credit Crunch.

For me personally, it's also the decade I got on the TFP

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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.

Fernando Pessoa, 1918