Nostalgia

Notes

If we can't look to others or to the future, then we can only look at the past and inwards.

Since Postmodernism rejects universal truth in favor of context-dependent meaning is about deconstruction, we can no longer have unified Narratives shape perception and identity by constructing subjective reality or grand ideologies that combine us, or give us purpose and goals for the future, after all everything is either relative or without meaning. We miss those times where we were unified, where we felt part of something bigger.

Now we are highly individualized, replacing grand dreams with quantitative "cold" measures of success like money or status. Image vs core Commodification turns non-tradable values into economic transactions

We become narcistics and nostalgic, no wonder our economy is selling us nostalgia, and focuses more on remixing than creating something new.