The Nostalgia Cycle Loop

The Nostalgia Cycle Loop

Hope is the one virtue that requires imagination , in the sense that we consider the past and imagine a better future.

The nostalgic content being churned out via movies, books, even music(!) requires less imagination on our part because it comes from already-established world building. It’s easier to imagine the context aro... See more

Human minds are not elusive, ghostly inner things. They are seething, swirling oceans of prediction, continuously orchestrated by brain, body, and world . We should be careful what kinds of material, digital, and social worlds we build, because in building those worlds we are building our own minds too.