Them: Wasn’t life better when you were a kid? Don’t you want to return? What if we told you that loss was the fault of inferior races and not the passage of time? You: Man, I got better things to think about now than the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and Ghostbusters
I think it’s the difference between visiting the past and LIVING in the past.
Yeah, like K-pop Demon Hunters, which combines the best features of both
I’m old but I think pop culture is actually getting better over time
I disagree with nostalgia being an inherent weakness. My nostalgia is being taught to "treat others the way to be treated", feeling like we were learning from our past, & moving to something better. To get uncomfortably real, it's the reason I can maintain any hope that will be true for my kid.