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"Glamour" of the times
2016-07-15 00:18:22 Post No. 1414532
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"Glamour" of the times
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2016-07-15 00:18:22
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I was listening to taylor swift's wildest dream song and watched the video and noticed it was a story about a movie being shot in olden times, the 60s at most.
I know that the 50s are always idealised but are the 50 years prior to the present always idealised as an innocent and more glamorous time? Or is this a factor that only appears in the technological age?
My guess is that increasing levels of technology lead to more abstract jobs that just don't stimulate the feelings of people. Also more and more interaction is through screens (harder to idetify with even if news travels at lightning speed) and there's less centralisation of everything (so you have 50 news sources instead of 5, you have much less entertainment options). I think the latter centralisation aspect is also a key aspect. I'm not totally sure what that psychology research about option paralysis shows (whether it exists or not) but I think, as we see from forced high school and pretty much forced college, people feel happier when there's artificially created social interactions. Also movie stars were the shit because they didn't have youtubers, twitch streamers, netflix, tv, radio, and other stuff to crowd them out.