
The Cult of Yesterday

What makes this trend so dispiriting isn’t artists seeking financial stability – it’s the hollowing out of cultural aspiration itself.
“Now the culture is most exemplified by people whose entire end goal appears to be empty profiteering. ... Double sell-outs don’t deserve our esteem as ‘creative’ people. They should be content with the reward they
This coercion to extend every adventure as long as possible — the nostalgia continuum — is the connective tissue fastening past experiences to the logic of the “feed,” which cuts the flow of experience down into atomized parts that are readable to tech platforms, enshrines chapters in life to make them rankable, interactable, and presentable to you... See more
Real Life Mag • Nostalgia for Nostalgia — Real Life
