“Rosy retrospection is a cognitive bias where people tend to remember past events more positively than they actually experienced them, often viewing the past as better than the present.”
This same cognitive bias explains why people have a strange affinity toward the old days, that they may not have even experienced, like living on a farm without modern technology (e.g. hot water). These are extremely difficult lifestyles you don’t actually want. If you romanticize the past without objective evidence as to why/how the past is better, then you’re probably experiencing this cognitive bias.
https://video.nostr.build/87f51594551d12692e60f77ea198524001d796a6f324b2f8d60168e65f0fc161.mp4