Hi stranger, today this is the philosophical question that we will be striving for : >> is nostalgia a concept which should be cultivated in our society ?>><<What do you mean by that ?>>Nostalgia, {username}, is about remembering the past>>Past games played, Past movies watched, >>The issue with nostalgia is its ability to turn into anemoia, to prevent progress by idealizing it, viewing it as a perfecting which cannot be outmatched>><<This doesn't seem like something worth worrying about though...>>Oh, it is very present in our society; take video games for example : a lot of games follow tropes without readapting them, a lot of stories follow 'clichés' about the way certain types of character should behave and act inside them; that is not all bad and can serve as a base, but it does have an influence over people and if overly-kept can prevent or delay a genre's improvement>><<I understand, but there is a point where it isn't worth looking for more, where ideas get stale and novelty cannot be reached in certain domains of truth>>Or see viewer, anything can be surpassed, as everything people do or create is bound to imperfection due to limited perception with our senses, worldview or approach towards seeing the world from specific angles due to the traditional way the language works and lastly... idealization of the past>>When we get constantly exposed to systems working in certain ways, seeing things operated by certain people, there's a part of us telling ourselves that most of it should stay the way it is, that a better option isn't to be considered>><<And so we don't even think about it...>>Exactly, we do not consider what could be better due to the present forces maintaining the idea that we already reached our peak, and that the flaws of our society are a necessary evil that we have to stay contempt with>>Plus,>>"Stability" in the way we often mean it translates to a lack of change>>When we consider a concept to be perfect, we close our eyes to the flawed parts within or learn to like them like masochists playing russian roulette>>Stability in the sense of a lack of movement is only relative, the Earth is stable ? on a larger scale it is not; Plants and rocks are stable ? on a smaller scale they are not>>Stability, in that sense, means death, and people wishing for it are wishing for their own demise; kinda, of course I am pushing things to their utter extreme>>After all, this is how you evaluate the reality of a thought https://pastebin.com/XvUzppLt