What do you think is specifically driving the overwhelming need to "look to the past" in this present time?
Everything that seeks to be futuristic and promising is unable to deliver on so many levels now, who cares about Mars if Earth has never not been at war between differing factions.
I just cannot help question what type of "nostalgic" signature is being made right now, or what is currently special about "now" in context of what should be fawned over to the degree it is now like say the 80s clearly is etc, I grew up in the 80s so I can say at least I experienced it in some way by memory, certain things look to be clearly above average on many levels than they do today, not everything perhaps but outside of materialism life did feel more fun, more loving, more exciting and certainly less troublesome in many aspects, but I dont want to be biased for bias sake. I just haven't heard much laughter in this future we are now in.
Is it just me that sees just about "everything" fashion, music, furniture, tools, computers and whole plethora of societal things that are stagnating?... My better half and myself have become absorbed by the need to get out and enjoy the decaying infastructure that is around us, researching, finding then walking disused railways, canals and ancient woodland...because the shiny pristine retail parks offer nothing but opportunity for some form of parasitism dressed up as retail heaven, while the surrounding areas are looking like an anemic host struggling to keep up anymore, which strangely becomes the appealing part, looking how well made things were, how much effort went into things etc or looking how nice things are when they have been forgotten but were not maintained because the promise of something better was more appealing!
Got me thinking, is nostalgia driven by everyones need to reminisce over "better" times, our own unique time on earth being somehow better and carrying that distinct bias beyond any logical reasoning, or is there a sense of nothing new anymore being the overwhelming realization, by reaching a milestone in age or maturity?
Or are we looking back because we see no future being created?
Will the 90s receive as much revisiting as the 80s?
Is it a generational thing?
Not really trying to emphasize a need for a collective existentialist mindset or just to over analyze or throw negativity onto the future generations even, but all Im hearing is "new music" that tries to sound old or not expanding much further beyond what has already been "done" in previous decades. 60 70 80 90s musical ideas that in a sense make up the sound of the 2000-2020s or do I need to purchase a pipe and some slippers now. I still enjoy new music but I keep being reminded of people 20 years younger than me living in the present saying they wished they were born in earlier decades.
I don't fully understand it properly.