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dearfrieda :
I think we’ve always faced instability in the present…I am a bit of a nostalgia queen, but I know people in 1920 felt a similar level of modern malaise.
2026-07-18 07:11:27
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Jake :
I think that’s why I like solar punk, because it helps me imagine something better. Most modern media and fiction imagine a dystopia rather than a utopia. But all is not lost, it starts with making our local communities better and the hope is that it spreads from there. 😊
2026-06-18 21:15:37
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steve :
I think you’re onto something. One thing I’d add is that we may not just be nostalgic for the past, we’re nostalgic for connection. A lot of what people romanticize isn’t really the decade itself. It’s who they were with. Old friendships, family gatherings, neighborhoods where everyone knew each other, relationships that felt meaningful. It makes me wonder if part of the reason people struggle to romanticize the future isn’t just information overload. It’s that many people’s social circles have gotten smaller. More people are estranged from family, friendships seem harder to maintain, communities are weaker, and loneliness is more common. A future is easy to imagine when there are people you can’t wait to experience it with. It’s much harder when the future feels like something you’re facing alone. Maybe what we’re actually missing isn’t faith in the future. Maybe it’s faith in belonging.
2026-06-19 19:31:58
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Carly✨🛸✨ :
Exactly this. Every time someone tells me that things have never been as bad as they currently are, I’m like 😒. Things are hard, currently but we have come SO FAR.
2026-06-18 22:00:36
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Anansi Thee Spider :
I was nodding so seriously and thoughtfully at this and was entirely unprepared for how GODDAMN CUTE that cat is 😳😭
2026-06-20 01:03:53
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Christine :
This is an interesting perspective. I will just share as a person who grew up before the internet that it used to be only the elderly who lived in nostalgia mode. Exception: reading books from the past, looking at old art, and learning about history if those were your hobbies. Right now, in my opinion, people are not living in the present moment doing as many projects and things with their hands and their body and with their time like we were doing before the Internet existed and in the early Internet days. Even in the times when we had to sit down at a PC inside of our house to access the Internet, we spent a lot of time doing things, doing projects and hobbies, being with people, joining hobby and interests clubs, looking people in the eye, face to face. Once the smart phones became popular and spread to be used by all generations, using them all day and night, I think people are doing less projects. For example, less cooking from scratch, less repairing your own car and changing your own oil, less hobbies, less crafts, less making art, less doing your own yard work, even less house cleaning. There has been a shift to paying others to do your service: doing your grocery shopping for you, getting takeout food to go delivered, takeout coffee, eating in restaurants a lot, paying people to clean your house and change your car oil. While other people are doing that work for you, the customer is looking at a screen. People didn’t used to get so nostalgic until they were elderly and limited in their physical movement capabilities: arthritis can no longer do stained glass, making and knitting, weak body no longer can do heavy cleaning and yardwork, etc.
2026-07-06 14:19:02
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kylie :
This is such an intelligent take, “optimism is not passive”
2026-07-06 22:18:31
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Runes :
when was the last time you heard somebody use the phrase, "the twenty-second century"?
2026-07-10 21:53:50
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GABS :
It’s these damn phones
2026-06-18 23:51:42
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sunday.coser🏛️🪽 :
You’re so right, I never noticed this, you literally opened my mind to romanticizing the future, I remember being a kid dreaming about being an adult, and now I romanticise my past when I was a kid. I need to start romanticizing the futur instead of the past😳
2026-06-19 08:40:51
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taty :
Have you seen Mightnight in Paris
2026-06-24 16:45:23
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Monday Knight™ :
nobody romanticizes the future because *gestures around anxiously*. jokes aside, always love your takes and analyses
2026-06-24 01:02:48
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biggyblackdeluxo :
You’ll drown in nostalgia unless you have something just as good ahead of you I think, personal projects, social and cultural stuff
2026-06-19 00:32:05
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logicwithella :
I love this perspective!!
2026-07-10 09:06:05
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Paul Cuneo :
“What changed is not the presence of suffering but our relationship to it.” Keeping that with me.
2026-06-18 20:49:20
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⭐️reese⭐️ :
yall made fun of her but taylor swift said it…
2026-07-04 17:04:26
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Maureen Whitman :
Caitlyn! You can start romanticizing the future!! No time but the present to look forward to
2026-06-20 16:28:27
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Indigoandviolet🪻 :
I feel like someone like you needs to be President
2026-06-18 20:33:26
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Nevermore :
Love this. I just wrote an essay for college all about this. Nostalgia is such a fascinating subject.
2026-06-18 20:48:38
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ThatJuliaFunke :
I hope a storry finds you and you write a great book. You have a way with words and describing Feelings that needs to be written down🫶🏻
2026-06-22 01:17:07
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witnylit :
“ The future is something we make” Yes. 👍
2026-07-04 17:14:02
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witnylit :
Selective memory. Yes.
2026-07-04 17:10:40
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Luna🌀 :
Absolutely, before we were excited about how future will make us live better, but actually now the future (our present) just made us anxious, depressed, and addicted to dopamine. It’s so frustrating!
2026-07-04 15:59:39
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taty :
“Hope is a practice”
2026-06-24 16:47:30
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𝒮𝓉𝑒𝓅𝒽𝒶𝓃𝒾𝑒 🐆 :
Lovely video!
2026-06-18 20:31:13
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