The naughty Noughties
Columnist Don Morgan... - 29/12/09
The Turkey’s been devoured, the row’s been had, your idiot son-in-law’s still talking about his new car and Trivial Pursuit has not only been pursued, it’s been hunted down and cruelly executed.
All that’s left is to watch are those retrospective shows that’ll litter the TV listings like so many footballers litter local magistrates courts, to find out what was so bloody amazing about the first decade of the 21st first century. The answer is complicated, when you see what’s happened since 2000.
For a start, and this is a small gripe, but I’m a little disappointed that we ever got past 2000. Disco 2000 by Pulp is no longer a playful anthem of teenagers deciding to reunite in the distant future.
It’s a song for thirtysomethings who want to reminisce about the 90s and all that decade brought. No nuclear apocalypse happened, so, Jarvis Cocker, you’ve written an oldie, forever to be played on BBC Radio 2, and not even by Terry Wogan.
2001: A Space Odyssey is also confined to its own generation. The future is not quite as futuristic as we thought it would be. 2001, however, brought its own interesting turns of events.
George W Bush took office at the beginning of the decade, having been “elected”, much in the same way that Hitler was “elected” in 1933 (the Nazi share of the vote was actually going down, he just knew what to do when he got in).
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