So far they're pretty crappy.
The end of the cultural 90's came exactly on morning of Sept 11, 2001. After a decade of blissfull naivety that the breakup of the USSR meant the end to a global threat, reality came crashing down upon us like two gargantuan towers.
Soon, 1990's attitudes about openness, culture and acceptance were violently catapulted back to the paranoid, suspicios, and secretive attitudes of the cold war era. The evil eye once cast upon Communism and Eastern Europe, shifted to Islam and the Middle East. The Western world had a new universal enemy, and due to the fact they had gone for nearly 10 years without one, war immediately followed. Seems the 90's were just a short vacation from the tension of a constant, looming, threat.
I guess we'll just have to see how the second half of this decade plays out. Seems pretty grim so far.
