Maybe this is just me, but as time goes by, I'm more bewildered by modernity. It gets more unfathomable with every passing year.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.
We live in a world which is changing very fast. What seems contemporary now will be historical in two years.
The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.
When our culture shifts, it tends to overcorrect, throwing out everything associated with an era we've moved past, rather than saving what was good and combining it with what is new.
Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.
The way we experience history and time in all its forms shifted quite massively between 1989 and 2001 - to the point where contrivances like decades are now kind of silly.
They say change gets more difficult as we get older - each year we're more stuck in our ways, more reluctant to learn something new.
Modernity means overabundance. We are living in the age of mass-produced objects, things that come without announcing themselves and end up on our tables, on our walls. We use them - most of us don't even notice them - and then they vanish without fanfare.
In 50 years, I don't think you're gonna look back at 2006 and say, 'The good old days.'
I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable.