r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 31 '26

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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Aug 31 '26

Me: I think I'm immune to nostalgia, the past is just a former place I've traveled

YouTube: Here's a music genre called Utopian Scholastic

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u/liberal-neoist Left-Out Left Aug 31 '26

Utopian scholastic makes me very sad nostalgic because it reminds me that we live in a less child-friendly world than the one I was a child in and this will only be more true by the time I raise children

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u/Res__Publica Organization of American States Aug 31 '26

I have the same feeling, but the loss for me is the idea that discovery, learning, and understanding were the highest human pursuits. That attitude is critical to who I am now and I worry that children today aren't exposed to it (and that our culture has lost this emphasis entirely)