If we are living in the future, why does the past seem so much better?
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Because it was.
Because the future is never quite within reach, we keep seeing just a little bit farther than where we can get to. The past is static, looking back it feels as if everything is under control because nothing can change in the memory.
Because we glamorise the past, forgetting the flaws there, just so we can have a warm and comfy memory to attach to, whenever the present seems too much 💜
This must be it. I don’t remember myself or most definitely not my young kids being nostalgic about the past until recently. My middle schoolers are enamored with the 80’s.
I do think the 80’s are our generation’s roaring 20’s.
It also has to do with whenever your existential way of thinking about. life kicks in and you can for the first time see the life from a nihilistic aspect 💜
Also these days there’s so much stimulation available and comparison between each other, that we have really forgotten to “just be”. 🫂
I am jealous of people that were alive during the analog days, life seems so much simple back then 🧡
You remember how our generation was fascinated with the ‘60’s? Your kids aren’t fascinated with the ‘80’s, they’re fascinated with you!
Good job, mom!
I do agree that a lot of people of our generation were nostalgic for the 60’s but I was never one of them. I never understood the whole anti-war or pro-drug culture. Funny that I have only just now started to get it.
I never did it either. But all my friends did! I’m a little younger so it was a mix of flower child and disco queen.
I remember living through the 80’s, and being nostalgic about the 60’s era my older siblings lived through. Funny how this cycle repeats. I do have some fond memories of the 80’s, but neon, parachute pants and Michael Jackson jackets would not be included in that. Lol.
Nostalgia. Also we will block out traumatic or negative things from memory and the past will seem better than it really was
Sorry, I didn’t see #[3] ‘s reply before typing mine
I disagree that it’s all nostalgia. Quality of life was better for the majority in the 80’s and 90’s compared to now. 9/11 and Covid have particularly changed things for the worse.
An age of ignorance has set in. I agree that the 80s and 90s were better. I was there.
Thanks for the #zap ! 🙏🏼⚡️💜
Yeah I should’ve been more precise. Definitely not all nostalgia. Wealth gap was definitely narrower in those decades too
Let's not forget the 2008 housing market crash.
Because we have fears and anxieties and few certainties
Because we view the past through the eyes of child.
Nostalgia. Less time on the phone and more time with outside with friends.
Inflation made things worse. My parents did not go to college, but were able to buy a house for 2.6X their annual income.
My wife has a master's degree and I have a BA, that cost more than my parent's house but our house(in not as nice a neiborhood cost 4.2X our annual income.
My dad had a pension and my mom saved very little in her 401k, but they were still able to retire on social security. I'm not sure Social Security will be around in a few years, but even if it is, I won't be able to retire on it.
The past is better because they robbed the future.
I would be a basket case if it wasn't for bitcoin. I don't know how nocoiners cope.
There's only eternal Now 😉
Alan Watts - "The wake doesn't drive the ship anymore than the tail wags the dog"
Nostalgia is a hell of a drug