Nostalgia is a powerful drug. It’s very natural at my age for people to get into the “everything new is bad” mentality. Old movies were great, new ones are awesome! Old music was great, new music is terrible!
Look, here’s the reality: some stuff is great, and some stuff is terrible. It’s mostly evenly distributed across time, because it’s mostly evenly distributed across people who create it and people are creating stuff all the time.
If you love all old stuff and hate all new stuff, then you love a lot of terrible stuff and you hate a lot of great stuff. It’s easy to find examples that support your confirmation bias. Some old stuff IS great! Some new stuff IS terrible! But your “new” will be someone else’s “old” when they’re a cranky and nostalgic old coot.
Learn to let go of the worst of your artifacts, and make room for some rad new stuff.
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