When was the exact moment modern society jumped the shark? -

[Queen Of The Harpies]

From when I was born to the the late 2000s, I can't recall a time in society this socially fucked up.

When do you think the world had its 'jump the shark' moment?

 

[Foxxo]

Whenever the picture that you use as your avatar was taken.

 

[funknuggets]

women's suffrage movement

 

[verissimus]

Sharknado, duh.

 

[Spooky Bones]

"The average man believes everything went wrong with WW2, the educated man believes everything went wrong with WW1, and the true student of history believes everything went during the French Revolution." I forget who said that but it works for me.

 

[ConfederateIrishman]

When the US switched to fiat currency?

 

[Syaoran Li]

Honestly, I'd say The Great Recession in the late 2000's was where everything truly started to fall apart and there was no turning back, especially with the ultimate peddler of false hopes that was Barack Obama and his neoliberal cohorts, although you also could make a convincing argument for 9/11 or the 2003 invasion of Iraq being a "Jump the Shark" moment for the United States.

When the US switched to fiat currency?

Nixon officially took us off the gold standard and switched to fiat currency in 1972, IIRC.

 

[The Pink Panther]

When FDR introduced the ideas of wealth redistribution and solved the Depression by putting our country into World War II.

 

[crocodilian]

When we started fluffing banks and the federal reserve.

 

[The Last Stand]

Donald Trump as President. 9/11. Social media and the technology boom.

Are we talking about the 90s onward?

 

[Lemmingwise]

When's the exact moment that the man fell to his death?

People will say when he hit the ground, but it was irreversable after he had been falling for four stories down.

It's kinda like that.

 

[Guts Gets Some]

Februrary 24, 1982

 

[Shaved Kiwis]

Februrary 24, 1982

I'm sorry but the correct answer was August 29, 1997.

 

[Ted_Breakfast]

When dumb and lazy people were allowed by invention and social contract to survive, thrive and spread their genes. Humans have been around a long time, but it's only recently we started acting like aliens.

 

[F. Murray Abraham]

World War I and the boneheaded decisions that led up to it.

 

[Ughubughughughughughghlug]

When the US elected a Black president

 

[Guts Gets Some]

When the US elected a Black president

No joke, I agree. Shit started to sink fast once Black Jesus came in.

 

[MAPK phosphatase]

December 23, 1913

 

[Detrogen]

The moment the supreme court allowed gays to be married in the US was the beginning of the end.

 

[acmeurquhart]

When Protestants started to get uppity.