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> Music and literature work like that. We think the age of Mozart was particularly wonderful, because we have Mozart's music. But there was plenty of other musi
by CM30 9y ago
> Music and literature work like that. We think the age of Mozart was particularly wonderful, because we have Mozart's music. But there was plenty of other music in that era, most of it bellowed by bad musicians in taverns. That's not so different from today's music scene.
Yep, it's the good old nostalgia filter in action. You see the good stuff that survives the passage of time, but ignore the crap that gets rapidly forgotten:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NostalgiaFilter
- coldtea 9y ago"It's just nostalgia" is an easy cop out. It presupposes either a linear progression towards better things, or a constant quality. The reality is that periods have ups and downs, the middle ages were not as good in many things as the Ancient Greek and Roman times, the period after the Renaissance wasn't as good as it, the WWI and WWII era weren't as great as the periods that followed, etc. This can happen across every industry, art, field, including politics and science. There are always regressions, ups and downs, stagnation periods, local maxima we waste time on, etc. It's good to recognise them, as opposed to knee jerking "it's just nostalgia speaking".