>>15316136Psychologically? Far better. People were social with no oversocialization.
The mass media was at the peak of its power, that it's trying to recreate with online censorship, yet people were still saner.
You actually had to look for what you wanted to know, but you were not in a bubble.
The world had a certain optimism about the future between the fall of the Soviet Union and the fall of the towers that seems incomprehensible today.
