Sometimes I catch myself wishing I could rewind parts of the world to the 1980s and just leave it that way. Not to relive my youth or go back to some glory days. That’s not what the fantasy is about. What I’ve started to realize is that when men my age long for that era, we’re not really reaching for the past. We’re reaching for specific things about how life worked back then that have quietly disappeared from modern life. Things most of us feel the absence of but haven’t quite been able to name. In this video I try to name them. Because I think what we call nostalgia is actually something more important than nostalgia. It might be the most honest signal we have about what’s gone missing and why daily life feels the way it does now.
Chapters:
00:00 Intro
02:11 ONE: The freedom to be unreachable
03:25 TWO: When the world stayed out of your head
05:18 THREE: Before everything became “content”
06:59 FOUR: A world your hands could fix
09:17 FIVE: When you didn’t have to question everything
11:22 SIX: When scarcity made things matter
13:24 Conclusion
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truth! What I have been saying about wanting to shift my habits more to analog more frequently. Not cold turkey but mindfully. Also still practicing what I have been practicing about intentionally watching opposite points of view often very argumentative without feeling the need to argue back at the screen while still maintaining a strong stance. It’s gonna be a crucial strength about exercising the right not to vote coming up. I’m not invoking no election! I hope there is one! Just a friendly reminder to not get it twisted. . 🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿🧿