I’m way too analytical to fall into that curve, and I’m sure most people on Lemmy are like that too. Like, we literally have data going back decades on most of these metrics, so why are people even going with their gut? Quite a few are literally numbers you can check!
But alas, your average nobody ignores data…
timestatic@feddit.org 16 hours ago
Damn we humans are bad as shit as forming our subjective opinion that doesnt get extremely distorted by nostalgia
Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
I always go back to that line from Men in Black about the difference between a person and people.
In aggregate we really are the worst.
HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 14 hours ago
People often forget that nostalgia is the secret spice that makes the past great… not the actual past.
And nostalgia is nothing more than there’s shit happening in our brains at 10ish-20ish that doesn’t happen any other time. Hormones and energy and lack of responsibilty and first experience bias combine to create a dopamine cocktail we cannot recreate.
I mean, I’ll die on the hill of 90s was the best music, TV, movies, video games, and fashion. But I know that it’s not objectively true. But that’s how it feels for sure.
arrow74@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
Other explanations could just come down to the structure of our current society.
I can see a clear and quantifiable decrease in my family support structure between childhood and now. Of course that’s mostly due death and moving away from home. But my answer would be entirely different if I lived in a multi-generational home or kinship group. Which was the default for about 99.9% of human existence.
Music, fashion, and tastes are a lot more subjective though.