And in 50 years there will be people waxing nostalgic for the good ol’ days when you could just fire up your own access to the internet and buy a plane ticket with your credit card.
Wanting freedom and comfort is not a “return to the past” thing as much as a “why has capitalism robbed me of the feeling of freedom and choice” thing.
Not sure what the point is. I’m saying people always look back and cherry-pick what was “better” and things are always changing.
You can advocate for those better things without tying it to the past. When you do that, you are feeding fascism. I know it sounds hyperbolic but I am dead serious, every time anyone even casually says “it was better back when…” a GOP intern gets promoted to media manager.
Now you’re being hyperbolic. You seem to be saying that we shouldn’t point out Left victories of the past [the New Deal etc.] simply because they happened in the past.
Nostalgia is a human trait, and like any other it can be manipulated.
I already said I know it sounds hyperbolic, I am saying broadly, we need to take better care with how we talk about things in the past.
Lots of people saying “I want to have the system we had in the past” has a very different material outcome in our world than lots of people saying “It was better in the past.”
Not all nostalgia is equal.
There’s wanting to go back to when all the slaves were happy and there’s remembering when you could go to the airport and buy a ticket for cash.
And in 50 years there will be people waxing nostalgic for the good ol’ days when you could just fire up your own access to the internet and buy a plane ticket with your credit card.
Wanting freedom and comfort is not a “return to the past” thing as much as a “why has capitalism robbed me of the feeling of freedom and choice” thing.
And in 50 years there will be people waxing nostalgic
Kinda proving my point here.
Not sure what the point is. I’m saying people always look back and cherry-pick what was “better” and things are always changing.
You can advocate for those better things without tying it to the past. When you do that, you are feeding fascism. I know it sounds hyperbolic but I am dead serious, every time anyone even casually says “it was better back when…” a GOP intern gets promoted to media manager.
Now you’re being hyperbolic. You seem to be saying that we shouldn’t point out Left victories of the past [the New Deal etc.] simply because they happened in the past.
Nostalgia is a human trait, and like any other it can be manipulated.
I already said I know it sounds hyperbolic, I am saying broadly, we need to take better care with how we talk about things in the past.
Lots of people saying “I want to have the system we had in the past” has a very different material outcome in our world than lots of people saying “It was better in the past.”