Micro era

I am watching a lot of TV on the Internet. Catching up on stuff I didn't watch when it was on broadcast. Right now I am watching a show called Deadline with Oliver Platt. According to what I am seeing on the "air date" column the episodes ran from 10/00 to 4/01. What I am thinking is what can be gleaned from this small period? This is a time not just the calendar 21st century but that time after Clinton (or after the 2000 election) but before 9/11. The flavor of this time was clearly not that of the 90's but not really, to keep the metaphor, stewing long enough to define the over all nature of the dish.

I feel like this is a unique slice of time. The small period that was G.W. Bush's Time in office but before his Teflon 9/11 ascension. This was a cultural anomaly. We knew things had changed but we didn't know what the zeitgeist would be, what it would have been otherwise. Maybe in its own right but in context it might be a very illuminating as to who we are who we where. i guess what i am trying to say is that it wanted to be something and that something could be teased out of those few months. those few months before it was defined entirely in one day.

Just thinking.
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