"The current obsession with nostalgia and remake culture is easy to understand when you realize that it's a symptom of a culture that isn't allowed to imagine a future."

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[–] paultimate14@lemmy.world 87 points 2 weeks ago (10 children)

Or... Maybe for most of human history we re-told the same stories over and over again for thousands of years until the relatively recent concept of "intellectual property" has forbidden us individuals from doing what comes naturally, forming this sort of weird resentment for when corporations do it?

[–] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 39 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (8 children)

This is a real Im14AndThisIsDeep meme. More people have access to platforms where they can share their creative works than at any other point in human history, if you aren't seeing it then you're not really trying to find it. That point would be fair, too; its hard to find original content (even more so with the rise of AI-driven SEO). It's not the trend in hollywood, but hollywood doesn't define culture NEARLY as much as they'd like to think they do...)

[–] Nexy@lemmy.sdf.org 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

I think that lately people are taking refuge in things that made them happy in the past because not being able to see a clear future in their lives. Returning again and again to the things that made them happy in their day. And companies are only taking advantage of that. I'm not saying new thing don't exist, I'm saying people are not willing to search them because they only want to escape to the past.

Idk, I see more people that they live is something like pokemon that actually they family, career or they own projects or dreams.

[–] Klear@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 weeks ago

People have always done that.

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