Oh my goodness. We can always look at each decade from rose colored classes or from our negative view glasses. All decades have their good history and their bad history.
I choose to think we learn from our history, good and bad. We try to make the next decade better by what we have learned. However, to think we will have a perfect decade is naive. We have good things now and we will in the future. We also have bad things now and we will in our future. We learn from ALL experiences and try to improve.