to discuss news and stuff of the old world dying
People tend to look longingly for a gentler, happier time but I hate to break it; it didn't exist. Maybe they weren't exposed to the evils of the world when they were young, and they crave their lost innocence. But in many ways, life and society used to suck even worse than today . Bad as things are now, I wouldn't want to go back.
I guess that's the difference between conservatives and progressives; Conservatives look backward and progressives look forward.
I have zero nostalgia. Good memories, yes. But I am hopeful that we could, if enough of us agree, build something better than has ever been before.
I can enjoy generational pandering like Ready Player One and I still want to get a TRS-80 Model III (it outsold the Apple II!) and connect a pi zero to the serial port to connect to a self-hosted LLM trained to respond like MuThUr 6000 from Alien.
But no way in hell do I want to go back to that era.
Exactly this. Learn from the past, take from the past parts, and improve upon them.
Conservatives have been doing this since at least the 80s.
So, we're doing what every generation before us has done, cool. At least we're consistent!
It's saudade but artificial
Fauxdade
I disagree.
This feeling of saudade/sehnsucht/hiraeth is real for many people but it is exploited by corporations.
Watch « Together, » and enjoy your life while trying to not hurt others; eyes forward.
Sometimes I wonder if there is a trival general explanation for this. For example, a generation that watched good media grew up and tried to make good media... and it turns out that making it is harder than consuming it, and all the old pioneers of media are long gone, leaving youtubers to recreate the craft from scratch by experimentation.
No. It’s just capitalism. The incessant need for constant growth causes executives to rely on established franchises bc they have name recognition and built in audiences. So they just keep shooting for low risk/high reward stuff that panders to a general audience.
The fact that we're just going in circles if I have no idea is his proof that the old way of life is I'm coming to an end. We're still in the waiting. Between the old world and the new