Have We Developed an Addiction to Nostalgia?

The possibilities of the future are so overwhelming that we’ve become addicted to reminiscing on “the good old days”

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Technology has made it more apparent each day that the possibilities of the future are limitless— We’ve made so many remarkable strides in technology in just the past few decades that the rate at which we’re accelerating is almost terrifying.

Though, it’s not to say that mankind is necessarily ungrateful or displeased with these advancements. The progress that we’ve made has in fact saved lives, such as making tremendous headway towards ongoing research in the battle to cure diseases. They’ve also helped with things as simple as making our jobs easier to manage on a daily basis. For these things, we’ll of course be eternally grateful.

However, in other areas, things are optimizing at almost too quick of a rate for our comfort. And with these continuing optimizations, it is simultaneously creating a deeper feeling of nostalgia amongst people, leaving us daydreaming about the past and the way things were before all of these rapid-fire changes.

But, it’s not only the pre-tech realm that we daydream about.