time warp
It’s a CAFÉ ANNE tradition that in the first week of January, I run around the city surveying NYC bodega workers to get their predictions for the coming year. You can read past accounts here and here and here.
Typically, bodega workers are brimming with prognostications—from the nutty (flying cabs) to the prescient (buy gold!) on subjects ranging... See more
Typically, bodega workers are brimming with prognostications—from the nutty (flying cabs) to the prescient (buy gold!) on subjects ranging... See more
Anne Kadet • The NYC Snack That Ate My Lunch!
can’t predict the future anymore??
It’s important to find a proper balance between being in the moment and stepping out of it. We all know people who live too much in the past or worry too much about the future. At the end of their lives, people often regret most their failures to act, stemming from unrealistic worries about consequences. Others, indifferent to the future or... See more
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We keep having black swan events
Others complain that we are too focussed on the past, or with the sentimental reconstruction of it. Past, present, future; history, this year, the decades to come. How should we balance them in our minds?
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Americans collectively owe $1.3 trillion in credit card debt.
People who can't get more credit cards are now relying on BNPL, even for stuff like groceries and small household purchases.
Auto makers are now offering car loans of 84 or even 96 months. That's 8 years to pay off a car. And people are eating it up, with the average new car going at >... See more
People who can't get more credit cards are now relying on BNPL, even for stuff like groceries and small household purchases.
Auto makers are now offering car loans of 84 or even 96 months. That's 8 years to pay off a car. And people are eating it up, with the average new car going at >... See more
Logical_Welder3467 • ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ is expanding fast, and that should worry everyone
all communicates, beyond economic insecurity, an inability to see into the future or imagine the possible future repercussions. It is reminiscent of the “reasonablists” in parks and recreation
Groundhog Day (1993)
Warp: Same day repeats endlessly
Escape lesson:
You don’t escape by optimizing the day — you escape by changing who you are. Growth, empathy, and presence break the loop.
Palm Springs (2020)
Warp: Shared time loop
Escape lesson:
Connection matters. You don’t get out alone; naming the problem together is the first real exit.
Russian
... See morePeople cannot see 12 months into the future nevertheless 5 year plan
That why people keep spending; BNPL
We do not believe in the future, we are extracting from what’s now
We cannot connect to the future
We’re just stuck in the now
Are we on the right / wrong timeline
Decline in patents, environmentalism sucking our resources dry
Are we in a time warp?
Most of my research on nostalgia has focused on the sentimental engagement with cherished memories from one’s own life. But people can also feel nostalgic for a past that predates them, which is known as historical nostalgia.
Opinion | Why Gen Z Is Resurrecting the 1990s
42% of Gen Z having dipped into retirement savings just to pay off BNPL debt. The average Gen Z now carries $94,000 in total debt.