Rants // Feeling Nostalgic Yet?

Nostalgia is stupid

Fair to a point, right? Except whoever said this on Bluesky was clearly confusing nostalgia for something else – a desire to escape the cold digital prison cell tech companies are increasingly placing us into. And I’m glad that kids are figuring out that faster than adults, from the sounds of it.

Yes, the same kids that aforementioned tech companies most certainly want to be obedient and submissive. Same kids we’re constantly told are getting dumber by the minute. They’re going to save us in the end.

The reasons I believe that is the clip from the commencement ceremony seen recently. In it you can clearly hear boos after the speaker mentions incoming AI revolutions. As well as cheers following a phrase that we once lived without AI. In other words the kids are alright – maybe adults that believe buying CDs/vinyl, reading books and listening to the radio are all useless fads easily replaced by AI that aren’t right in the head.

Things that we’re about to lose if things will go as planned by tech companies/billionaires – just off the top of my head

– Empathy (see Musk / Charlie Kirk / Trump)

– Introspection (see the rich eggheaded dudebro who name I won’t bother typing)

– Thinking (see nearly every big tech company)

The list goes on and on. Yet kids give me hope that not everything is lost – let them feel nostalgic for things they never had. Its their right. The alternative to them not having it, after all, is far, far worse.