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nostalgia is underrated.

there is a need to intellectualize and perform an armchair analysis to dismiss the enjoyment of recurring characters, imagery, story mythos, etc. of past works and the "Infantilism" of modern culture. to do performative penance for your complicity in capitalist consumption. to act out the discerning consumer, one who realizes the emptiness of capitalism, and symbolically sacrifice your idols.

there is a tendency to dismiss nostalgia and to dismiss the emotional attachment. personally as i get older i find myself looking to the past more and more. as i progress through my life and watch people pass away or depart in other ways, it makes an emotional and Jungian sense to return to the celebrated symbolic language of our youth, to re-create via imagery, sounds, sensory input (much as a cosplaying magician/Kabbalist may have done hundreds of years ago). remembering the good times of your life can be an indulgent experience but it is a natural one for all of us. the 30 year cycle may be a capitalist invention but is permeates the subconscious of all engaged in pop culture, it is a real and symbolic language.

certainly there is something to be said about re-evalutating the past, looking at the nostalgia and seeing how our views on the past have changed, how we may have done things differently, etc. but in general the knee-jerk gut reaction against nostalgia (see abuse of the term "Arrested Development") feels a like common thing these days. maybe there is always this kind of reaction against consumable media but i think attacking the emotion itself is misplaced.

nostalgia is both underrated and overrated. all things in moderation

There are definitely legit criticisms of nostalgia (particularly to the extent that it's a blinkered reflection which conveniently skirts past anything regressive) but most of the criticism seems more indicative of embarrassment about the forces which shape us before we start feeling the overwhelming urge to impress other people with the maturity of our critical faculties.

i get nostalgic about making love to a particular woman (different ones at different times, depending on my mood)

hey now

wistful might be the right word

or catholic guilt

"All things in moderation" should be retired

'All things in moderation' in moderation, imo.

Course it shouldn't but that is a good controp

"All things in moderation" should be retired

― fuck you, your hat is horrible (Neanderthal), Wednesday, December 6, 2017 1:09 PM (two minutes ago)

from a health perspective it's quite useful actually

did irishman oscar wilde rly say everything in moderation incl moderation?

mods in moderation, been saying this on this here board for years

b4 wilde???

yeah he did

pwnd!

Except potatoes.

controp is brilliant coinage, sturdy and elegant

http://www.kgbreport.com/images/kovacsepitaph.jpg

Hypocrisy isn't bad, actually it's good because at least the hypocrite knows what's right even if they don't do it

there's an ilx post i think of sometimes that's along the lines of "any attitude beyond total apathy produces hypocrisy"

Hypocrisy is like the factory setting for human beings. We're basically walking talking self-mythologizing cognitive dissonance machines by default.

Walt Whitman had some words for this i think

XP disagree but then we prob know different humans

kinda wish Ernie Kovacs drank more moderately on the night he crashed the car

all the greats were alkies

xxpost By default, I says. You can always pry open the control panel and futz with the settings but that takes (deeeeeeep siiiiiiiiigh) effort.

harmless contradictions are fine

makes things interesting

like saying i love potato fries then ordering sweet potato waffle fries

I think adolescents care a great deal about hypocrisy, and adults just care about what gets done? But that's probably my own bias.

Otm

I guess in one sense it's better to know what's right and not do it then to not know what's right and not do it. I think the badness of hypocrisy has something to do with its undermining your position to make moral demands on other people. If you make a moral demand on others that you're not willing to satisfy yourself, then you're basically contradicting the demand.

Do as I say, not as I do!

In his essay about Lynch, DFW swears up and down that the neighbor at the end of Blue Velvet actually eats a bug immediately after broadcasting her disgust about a bird eating a bug. If true, it's probably the canniest observation of human behavior in cinema history.

Nobody has any right to make moral demands on another

apologize for that immediately

fuck you your hat is horrible sorry

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XzgtLXa57i0

80% of 'hypocrisy' is just things being different. 'How can you be against the death penalty when you eat meat?' Stuff like that.

that isn't hypocrisy, that's a poor misreading of what hypocrisy is by the person that utters it

yep

Even nihilists look both ways before crossing the street.

"some communists RATM are, they accept payment for their CDs!"

FWIW, I feel like most of the rampant hypocrisy that people are engaged in almost all of the time is nothing catastrophic. It's mostly like: my self-perception is not a wholly accurate reflection of my engagement with the world. It's just important imo to be aware that these things will always be at least a little out of sync and to always be tweaking.

Most things are nothing catastrophic fyi

Thank u, I have updated my i

Shoots finger gun, winks, makes click noise

I guess in one sense it's better to know what's right and not do it then to not know what's right and not do it.
I think there's a solid case to be made that the former is worse than the latter!

I guess in one sense it's better to know what's right and not do it then to not know what's right and not do it.

Björk is unlistenable

I don't want to listen to her but I suppose other people do.

not many people feel that way
(at least i'm keeping with spirit of thread)

you should actually believe it.
oops n/m