This is my personal experience not to be confused with anyone else's.
1950s: Boring
1960s: Crazy
1970s: Interesting enough to want to kill yourself
1980s: Both boring and happy
1990s: The end of the Cold War so people were much more happy worldwide
2000s: 9-11 made everyone terrified again which was not a good thing.
2010: Everything continues to change at an unheard of pace
2020: possibly the end of Democracy as we have known it worldwide
These are my experiences of each decade in a few words. However, the world itself might be experiencing other things too.
For example, I don't think anyone who lived through the 1960s would call them anything but crazy. The amounts of people I knew who died from various kinds of craziness from racing cars, to drugs, to Viet Nam to suicide of various kinds was off the charts. To even have survived the 1960s as a young person then was a crowning achievement then sort of like our parents surviving World war II and the Great Depression.
The 1970s made us realize that this extreme change in society was going to just keep increasing off the charts. A book was written by Alvin Toffler called "Future Shock" which is where everyone was pretty much who lived in a city or suburbia. But, out in the country people often lived in worlds of the early 1900s which had a completely different value system which was more Victorian in nature which could not help but be in conflict with more modern mores and ethics.
The 1960s and 1970s could be equated with "Throwing the Baby out with the bathwater" which is about such extreme change and radical thought that you lose what is important by changing too fast.
This was true of me as well in 1960 I was 12 and in 1970 I was 22 so by 1980 I was 32 and a single divorced father and I remarried a lady with 2 kids from her first marriage and was raising my son from my first marriage at the time.
We went from the most affluent a society had ever been on earth in the 1950s and 1960s to the Viet Nam War and the Arab Oil embargo which bankrupted the U.S. during the 1970s. It was a crazy crazy time in every one's life in the U.S. (the 1960s and 1970s).
One of the extreme reactions to this bankruptcy within America was to become a survivalist which is similar to a Doomsday Prepper of today. Though I didn't get guns as a survivalist I did get 50 gallon drums that I filled with non-perishable food that I buried on my land for when I believed one wouldn't be able to buy food. What I didn't realize at the time was the friends we had made worldwide being the Last big nation standing relatively untouched after world War II. By loaning money and goods to other nations to rebuild after World War II we made many many friends and these nations loaned money to us during the 1980s so we didn't go bankrupt after the Viet Nam War. So, the economic collapse of the U.S. was staved off by loans from Europe and Japan during the 1980s. But, we still had the Savings and Loan Collapse of the 1980s which caused many to kill themselves when their life savings were wiped out. The government response to this was insuring people's accounts so this couldn't ever happen again.
But, between 2006 and 2012 many people defaulted on their home loans that were underwater and walked away and because of this many middle Class people lost everything which included 75% of the wealth of the middle Class nationwide. This is the main reason that Trump was elected because of the wiped out middle Class rage of being financially ripped off by worldwide bankers.
I personally find it a very paradoxical choice to elect someone who is becoming another Hitler instead of helping the middle Class he is further destroying them financially.
Why? Because his tax cut ONLY helped the biggest corporations which puts our nation deeper and deeper into debt to the point where another Great Depression caused directly by his tax cut is now inevitable. Potential bankruptcy of the U.S. because of debt from this tax cut will likely occur during the next presidency or the one after that. (whether it is Trump or someone else).
I suppose Trump could start a big war and that would reconfigure the world into something else sort of like World War II did also. Or the present pandemic could take out 1/4 to 1/2 of the world's populations which might allow Trump and Putin and Xi to start a One world government which is their present plan. It would be done through quarantining of cities worldwide by letting no one come into or leave that city. When food and water isn't allowed into those cities is when the One World Government would begin. A one world Government would start with martial law and quarantining of cities worldwide.
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