15/08/2026
Look, there’s nothing wrong with remembering your past with fondness.
There’s nothing wrong with drawing inspiration from previous decade’s music, books, photography, style, movies, lifestyle etc.
Where I (personally) draw the line is when we start thinking that the past was better than now, or when we get caught up in a romanticized fantasy of how the past decades actually were.
It is a false notion that the past was better.
The world is doing much better now than it ever has (yes, really!)
There are better chances for living a good life for the individual now, than there has ever been before (regardless of skin color, sexual orientation, gender orientation, financial background, etc.)
And any attempt to convince us otherwise, is a scheme to make us feel powerless, hopeless and limit our enthusiasm for life.
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