The current Some More News episode on "Toxic Nostalgia" and how it leads to fascism is a very good summary. It only slightly points at "generative AI" (which of course is very much connected to it) but it really illustrates the structures at play.
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@span tante Once again, Some More News delivers a really good episode. I hadn't seen the gen-AI 80s videos before. The thought that nostalgia is just "I wish I were 12 again" is hitting the nail on its head. Wasn't there a graphic floating around recently about where in time people located the "good old days"? It also pointed to the teenage years no matter which generation they asked.
@tante Those lists of #movies sequels, reboots and remakes is really impressive - and still misses some I thought of while they were going. It taps into something I noticed a couple of months ago, which is the number of films released this year which need "(2025)" to distinguish them from earlier entries with exactly the same name. I noticed it with
How to Train Your Dragon (2025)
The Naked Gun (2025)
Superman (2025)
War of the Worlds (2025)
but once I saw the pattern...
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@tante reminds me of a great piece on coziness
> The conservative/fascist/cozy mindset says “Don’t be challenged, don’t deal with negative feelings, don’t do anything. Be safe, be cozy, be subservient to the leader who will solve all this for you as only a father could. Have a wife! Have a kids! The stereotypical nuclear family! Leave degeneracy behind! Your art should be representative of an ideal and noble past, not this weird modern shit.”
https://docseuss.medium.com/i-was-a-teenage-exocolonist-and-so-can-you-0946b1d9ade0
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