TIME: 2000-2010 the 'decade from hell'

I see it as a time of dispelling myths we have about so many things. And that hurts. And its hard. but ultimately it is liberating us to see deeper into who we are as a nation, individually, to see and feel what is real vs illusory.

And maybe its just another good marketing vision to sell something, but I don't see cynicism ever generating true goodness or change.

Personally, I have learned so much. I have loved and been loved so much. Lost so much. Hurt so much. Its been so much all mixed together.

Here's why I think it was/is the decade from hell.

Can you think of another wherein Americans largely agree that torture and murder or 'whatever it takes' is justified to protect America?
Has the nation ever been more culturally divided since the Civil War?
Has America ever been financially dependent on a communist country for payday loans?
Has the military ever before been stretched to the breaking point?
Did you know that the number of suicides in the US military in the past year very nearly match the overall number of casualties in battle in the middle east?
In your lifetime, have you ever seen a tsunami of home foreclosures on this scale?
When can you recall government leaders committing high crimes including kidnapping, torture, murder, treason, aggressive war, using propaganda against Americans and massive warrant-less domestic spying with impunity?
Has there ever been a time when Congress provided less oversight over the other branches of government?

Don't get me started...

This just shows the self-centeredness of the current age. We're so concerned with our own minor pain of what goes on here. Go to places where people get maybe 1 meal a day. That doesn't change no matter how many recessions or terrorist attacks there are. They still live in extreme poverty.

But poor us. Omg, worst decade, like, ever!

I was going to complain about my misfortunes the last seven years including the ability lost to walk but then I watched some videos of grade school children in this country.60% in one school are homeless, no food or money to buy shoes or clothing. The school got donations and now the kids get a meal at school. Then the school found out the kids do not eat from they leave school on Friday until they return on Monday. What the hell kind of country do we have when our children are starving? How does one justify buying a room filled of toys for their kids knowing this? Food banks across the country are unable to meet the need Maybe some foreign country can send food and sponsor some of our children thru Christian Charities as we do theirs.

Of course is the Decade from hell, George "AWOL" Bush was running the country and now he's running around free!!!

LOL, I love the cover. This is really funny.

Bull. There have been huge numbers of things that happened in this past decade to be hugely thankful for. There is more prosperity more widely distributed worldwide than ever. More people are living longer and healthier lives than ever. Technological advances have been astounding. We live in a time that would be the envy of people living in other eras. What spoiled whiners we have become. It does show the emptiness of crass materialism however. Time is full of it.

Not the worst but definitely crappy. We had large scale terrorism attacks, humanitarian disasters in Darfur and Burma, two badly organized wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, economic collapse, and large natural disasters from hurricanes to earthquakes to tsunami which killed all told in the hundreds of thousands. I think the combination of manmade and natural disasters of this decade makes it particularly crappy in comparison with post-WWII decades.

The 60s had the Kennedy Assassination, the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr, Malcom X, and Bobby Kennedy, the Vietnam War, the creation of the Berlin Wall, but you also had the moon landing, Kennedy's inspirational term, Civil Rights marches, awesome music.

This might be a terrible decade but I personally believe that in all great crisis there are great inventions. The Middle-Ages are said to be dark and terrible times, and they were but the Divine Comedy was written in the middle ages and a lot of other great literature masterpieces. I think that the fact that in these 10 years something like Current tv was conceived and created, The Wire was broadcasted by HBO, is something that can't be just hid under the idea of The Decade from Hell. From crisis comes improvement.

This, goes for a close to the one of the many difficult transitions ahead of us between man, industry and technology, from Global warming and an unpopular administration to a Middle East conflict, this is also the Information era were we share our humble opinions in places like Current and Youtube.

First of all, 2000 to 2010 is eleven years. A decade is ten years. Secondly, the first decade of the 21st century is not drawing to a close; that will occur a little over a year from now. The year 2000 was the last year of the twentieth century, not the first year of the twenty-first.
And the dumbing down of America continues......

crap decade... dacade from hell, is a little over the top. we have had many other periods of time which have been as bad, and some that have been alot worse.

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2012! That is the year! :)

People will always remember the 1990s as America's Golden Age, when the country was at the peak of its economic and world power. Never again will the economy reach such great heights, and never will the United States enjoy the worldwide popularity it once did...

I guess its better to have loved and lost than to have never loved at all!

For those of you that are saying that there are worst decades: Remember, this meant to be a comparison only with the decades since the end of WWII...

Every year since since we have had rulers and governments over us has been the worst years, by my watch that makes around a few thousand!
2000-2010 is still fresh in our memories maybe that why we remember so much, but can anyone remember a time when it wasn't so bad? when people wern't raped, mugged, murdered, abused, tortured, extorted etc?

Defiantly a decade that could have us really knocking on hells gate.

times r bad but we r still here to complain so it aint that bad. plus keep in mind it only gets worse from here so enjoy wat u got and dont trip bout the rest.

This is bullshit. Things are always bad. It's always the end of the world. Doomsday is always right around the corner. People are always losing their precious past value systems. I'm sick of the nonsense and I wish media wouldn't buy into it! As EdJoy pointed out, I think we can take a look through history and see a multitude of bad decades...

Perhaps it's always easier to look at the dark cloud than it's silver lining. Maybe if Time- and the rest of us- spent more time looking at the advancements, progress and positive things in the world, we'd see it's not so bad afterall...

I can't believe all the horrible things I have survived in these past years, but the economy almost got me stressed out !

I wouldn't expect anything less from this trash misguided publication.

1963 ushered in a darker time, in my opinion, which lasted until 1992. Multiple assassinations of beloved leaders, war in Southeast Asia, the oil crisis and accompanying recession and inflation of the 1970s, followed by the presidencies of Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush made for 30 years of disillusionment, economic loss for the middle class, and degradation of the environment.

Worst decade ever? Okay, it sucked but I image any decade where the black plague was consuming the population, the Spanish Inquisition was running around killing and torturing innocent people or groups of people where shuffled off to a concentration camp because they happened to be born Jewish might be worse. And that is just off the top of my head. Come on people, it could definitely suck way worse.