It's official: people remember the 1980s fondly because it was a demonstrable low-point of #TotalDepravity. The all-time minimum was achieved in 1980, but it stayed low throughout the '80s into the mid-1990s, and then rose significantly in the late '90s and 2000s before stabilizing at a higher plateau since 2007, though still far below historic pre-1920 levels.
#culturomics #originalresearch
https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=total+depravity&year_start=1860&year_end=2019&corpus=en-2019&smoothing=3

Russian propagandists reminisce about the wonderful USSR, and Solovyev finally declares that life is overrated. We should not fear death, we will go to heaven. This fucking death cult is what we are fighting. #russia #deathcult #totaldepravity https://youtu.be/6QYavj3EhN4