> What was the worst decade of the 20th century for culture?

I only clearly remember the 90s, and they were terrible.

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Back when the white man marched on?

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Probably the 1910's.  WW1 followed by an actual pandemic.

Wasn't too bad culturally though, though it was the first decade where you could make it as an artist being a talentless weirdo

I think we can rule out the 60,70,80,90's... lots of new culture each decade
40's basically invented modern life
20's was the roaring 20's industry, entertainment abound

So we just have the 00's, 10's, 30's, 50's

We got flight in 1903.

It's all about the same, I think it would be more relevant to ask what age were your best years. In which case, socially I peaked in the summer of 1995. it's all downhill from there with a few bright bumps.

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1960s: Rise in race-mixing, feminism, recreational drug usage, divorce rate, bastard rate
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I agree with Spanky, if I had to choose a bad decade it would be the 50s. Post war conformity shyt.

30s had a great slowdown because of the depression, but things like Jazz and clandestine parties would have made it a fun decade if you had any money at all.

The clandestine parties were in the 1920s, due to Prohibition, which ended in 1933.

The 1950s were rock and roll was born.

13 of the greatest movies of all time were made in the 50s.

https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/

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The clandestine parties were in the 1920s, due to Prohibition, which ended in 1933.

The 1950s were rock and roll was born.

13 of the greatest movies of all time were made in the 50s.

https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100-movies/

There are other aspects to culture besides TV and movies.

The social norms of the 1950s and political environment were horrific.

1990s accept four underpance

Yes, I do agree there was a lot of foundational intellectual discovery in the 1950s.

BTW - did they ever update that AFI list? Pretty outdated by now.

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That's fair. I do agree that the 50's were a weak decade, relatively speaking.

That said..  the 50's are the last decade of "the golden age of hollywood"

In terms of philosophy, game theory went from nothing to everything.

Not trying to start a fight here, I don't think game theory is culture but it is the basis of culture even today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Game_theory

Game theory experienced a flurry of activity in the 1950s, during which the concepts of the core, the extensive form game, fictitious play, repeated games, and the Shapley value were developed. The 1950s also saw the first applications of game theory to philosophy and political science. The first mathematical discussion of the prisoner's dilemma appeared, and an experiment was undertaken by mathematicians Merrill M. Flood and Melvin Dresher, as part of the RAND Corporation's investigations into game theory. RAND pursued the studies because of possible applications to global nuclear strategy.[187]

In 1994, the first Nobel Prize in economics given to game theorists was awarded to the mathematician John Nash, the philosopher John Harsanyi, and the economist Reinhard Selten for “for their pioneering analysis of equilibria in the theory of non-cooperative games”. Harsanyi had applied Bayesian inference to game theory in formulating Bayesian games, whereas Selten had introduced the solution concept of subgame perfect equilibria, which further refined the Nash equilibrium, and the trembling hand perfection, among other contributions.[3][14] In 1996, the economist William Vickrey, who had applied game theory to the field of auction theory, was announced as a half-winner of the Nobel for "fundamental contributions to the economic theory of incentives under asymmetric information”, but he died before he could receive it.[14][188]

In 2005, the American economist Thomas Schelling and Israeli mathematician Robert Aumann were awarded the Nobel “for having enhanced our understanding of conflict and cooperation through game-theory analysis”.[4] Schelling had showed how strategic behavior and coordination can emerge even from simple individual choices, particularly through focal points and dynamic models of conflict and cooperation. Aumann introduced correlated equilibrium and repeated games, showing how cooperation can persist over time even among self-interested actors.[189][14]

In 2007 the legally-trained Polish-American economist Leonid Hurwicz, and the American mathematicians Eric Maskin and Roger Myerson, won the Nobel “for having laid the foundations of mechanism design theory”.[5] Hurwicz was the first to develop mechanism design theory, which shifted attention from analyzing outcomes of given rules to designing rules that yield socially desirable outcomes even under self-interest.[14]

In 2012, Alvin E. Roth and Lloyd S. Shapley were warded the Prize “for the theory of stable allocations and the practice of market design”.[6] In particular,Shapley's application of game theory in market design led to the concept of the market game.[14][190]

Recent laureates include Jean Tirole (2014),[7] and Paul Milgrom and Robert B. Wilson (2020).[8]

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Updated; https://www.afi.com/afis-100-years-100- … y-edition/

BTW, Spanky loved the 50s.

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Still pretty outdated.