QOTD – teetering on tomorrow
“I think a lot of the problems we’ve been experiencing come from the fact that no one embraces the miracle and amazement of the present. So many people—steampunks, fundamentalists, hippies, neocons, anti-immigration advocates—feel like there was a better time to live in. They think the present is degraded, faded, and drab. That our world has lost some sort of “spark” or “basic value system” that, if you so much as skim history, you’ll find was never there. Even during the time of the Greeks, there were masses of people lamenting the passing of some sort of “golden age.” But I’d never go back and live in any other time than teetering on tomorrow; this is the greatest time to be alive.” — Patton Oswalt
cultural nostalgia is destructive.
the “good old days” were not as good as you selectively remember them.
the only time to live is now.
carpe diem.
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being nostalgic used to be so much cooler…just look at the greeks, they had the golden age to look back on.