Couldn't ask for a better first post
I think part of it is that we live in the postmodernist world, where so much of culture has been done that it's becoming harder to do something original. Not impossible, but harder. Though in some ways it's also easier, as technology has shifted the means of cultural production significantly (it's actually a very Marxist idea, only without the violent revolution).
I think nostalgia works differently for different people. For those who lived it as a teenager, they are reliving it. Their young sibling, who imitated them, also relive it in a somewhat different way. And then I suppose even younger people are reviving those cultural artifacts in a new way.
A big part of nostalgia is about who is in the driver's seat of culture. And now it's my generation, who grew up in the 90s and are now heads of creative and marketing agencies, etc.
I think part of it is that we live in the postmodernist world, where so much of culture has been done that it's becoming harder to do something original. Not impossible, but harder. Though in some ways it's also easier, as technology has shifted the means of cultural production significantly (it's actually a very Marxist idea, only without the violent revolution).
I think nostalgia works differently for different people. For those who lived it as a teenager, they are reliving it. Their young sibling, who imitated them, also relive it in a somewhat different way. And then I suppose even younger people are reviving those cultural artifacts in a new way.
A big part of nostalgia is about who is in the driver's seat of culture. And now it's my generation, who grew up in the 90s and are now heads of creative and marketing agencies, etc.
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