Reply #3: Honestly, aside from the general suckitude of many world events over the past decade

[Warren DeMontague]

I really think, as others here have noted as well-- a major factor is the simple matter of everyone being pretty fuckin' unable to come up with a shorthand term for the thing, in the first place.

Is it the "zeros"? That just sounds bad. The "aughts"? Nobody says "aught", anymore.

Language defines our reality. People don't know what to call something, they stop talking about it. It's not just the end of the decade, it's been all along; folks haven't been speaking in terms of this decade AS a decade.. not nearly as much.

I'm sure once enough hindsight has a hold of the fucker, some name will catch on. But for now, if you can't name it, it aint there.