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I wonder if nostalgia is a human mind's hack to slow down aging.

• klfasdf77 9y ago
  I see it as "doing what you know" keeps one comfortable, less anxious, and more active in its discussion. If all you know are references to pop culture from a bygone era, however, you're going to be really limited. This comes up a lot in discourse among older and younger generations: kids should just get a job (because in my day they were all over and paid well), or not realizing college tuition has skyrocketed. People are locked into the era they were most active in participating in. Some people like to sit and ogle others creations; their novels, films, code, etc. All those neckbeards and "critics" who are simply consuming others creations, and being annoyed by things they don't like, without dipping real toe in themselves. IMO, forcing people to trade, and filling their lives with shallow knowledge like the new Ian Fleming book, is the problem. I'd rather our cultures move to protecting one's freedom to create, both experience in their mind and in the physical world. We tend to favor protecting trade, which generally means people are forced to create then trade it away. Why should forced trade be something we care to protect? Seems ripe for exploitation. If you're busy trading to survive, you're not creating. You get stuck in 1959 when you were most actively trading and watching the world. But you end up with nothing of your own. You've been trading for others.