I miss when “following” just meant the next page in a book, not a metric of your worth.
October 5, 2023
Following 1998, irony took over. Grunge died. Nu-metal and boy bands fought for the radio, and the cynicism of the late 90s gave way to the pre-traumatic stress of 9/11. We stopped dreaming about flying cars and started worrying about the backup of our hard drives. Following -1998-