the "bring back culture" pt2

I got some interesting comments the last time, they made me reflect how we feel the nostalgia is so close to our personal experiences and innerself even if it seems obvious to say. i have developed social anxiety in the last 3 years, i feel nostalgia hitting so close to home bc i miss the times when it wasn't so hard to socialize.

Before i start with the topic of the day i would like to remark that all my thoughts on these themes aren't random, i'm currently reading a book for a course about "how medias impact our life"  and this book is focus on nostalgia the authors goes trough different objects and  subjects to look at this feeling in different prospectives.

I take some of the parts of the book but most of the things u see written are still coming from me, what i think and connect during my reading .

These chapters i highlight on my blog seems interesting to bring into an indie website for a debate, so let me know what u think.

the golden age and why we dwell on it so much

the term golden age seems so frozen in time but in reality is much more static and personal, every generation has one, but that doesn't mean the one that your generation "statistically" has is your personal one, get it?

nostalgia can be determined by: what the media push, past traumas and political climate. 

so why don't we go trough these points together now?

Consuming media is a big part of our life, as people that stay in the indie internet i think we all have a deep comprehension of how digital media alter our brains but what about physical ones? how much has the meaning behind furniture changed?

Over the years the phenomenon of Vintage was just for collectors or particular niche interests but into the last 7/8 years trends and fashion changed fast, so fast that everything we own as lost meaning, as if we spun around so fast that now we are just standing here, dizzy, numb with the quick fix being spinning again.

An accumulation of vintage objects from different eras within the same house could take us into a new landscape, where diverse cultures and years coexist within the very same room.

When this could sound innocent, harmless it's in reality an extremely  distorted euphoric way of seeing the things for how they really are, behind our hyper-materialistic society and  market.

A vintage object in a today home could be defined afflicted by kitsch

Baudrillard always used to say that the difference between the past and its simulacrum, between the model and the copy, between the original and the fake, between nostalgia and vintage, is becoming increasingly blurred.

Kitsch is the essence of that blurred nostalgia, a nostalgia suitable for all palates, that sugarcoats the ugly things of the past to make them unpredictably desirable; it is covered in such an euphoria that it seems to strip away their true human essence

that very essence, that for millennia has craved a gaze that always looks backwards, elsewhere, just as Pothos once did...

(As for it now, i think i wrote a much dense concept i will leave u with a tease of the next topic  that i will write later on.I should've added more examples but i couldn't find any, i hope i doesn't make any major mistake traducing this).

Thanks for listening