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In my blogs we'll easily analyze and discuss about one of the many interesting aesthetic and psychological phenomenons that characterize the mass culture around the world! So if you're looking for a little relaxing and entertaining moment where your opinion matters as well, take your time to read and reply. Don't be shy or afraid, this is your safe place for curiosity! 

Today's all about the FEELING OF NOSTALGIA, as I promised! ⩇⩇:⩇⩇✮
Is it a melancholic fear or a sweet escape? Why do we feel this way and what around us allows it? 

Before answering all these questions, first of all we should all ask ourselves why we're even here, on this cool social network. Blogging was fire a few decades ago, everything had strong personality and blogs were considered fun but sometimes also a safe place to tell and share by many. The fact that they've come back at least here not in a plain and unpersonalized style, says a lot about how omologation is inherent more and more anywhere we go today, in mostly everything we live with. What's more immediate and clear at the highest speed and resolution is more worthy, what a frenetic world we live in, uh? 

Yet our mind tends to dematerialize anyway this perfect clearness of images in fragments closer to hyperuranium rather than to reality. Truth is the deepest the thought, the more it belongs to an abstract world; the world of memories and dreams-state. The reference of a mind will always draw from memories, a dig into how we felt once and we'll never forget. We don't dream at high resolution, we don't think at high resolution, we can't even rewind memories in our brain cronologically accurate as a video player. We're flesh and feelings.

                                                                                     [Gif above from the movie Toys (1992)].

In the end it's true that fashion and trends are just circles repeating themselves (if you'd like to go into details, Lev Manovich wrote a lot of interesting stuff about this topic of medias and trends repeating themselves in time!). Isn't it weird and interesting that the new generations are getting closer to physical medias? Do you relate with this? I'm curious about your experience! Share your thoughts, I find this interesting. I'm class '99 and I think that generation was the last to naturally live more "physically" (in terms of medias and lifestyle) or the ones in between, the ones who lived and saw; at the same time experiencing and passing from an old to new technology and life changes. 

[Fruits magazine, by Shoichi Aoki who took photos of people around the streets of Tokyo, 90s-2000s. I terribly suggest viewing this magazine instead of scolling on insta full time. It affected me so positively rather than today's influencers, because those were real everyday people with sick fashion sense!] ♡ꨄ︎˚ʚ♡ɞ˚

I feel like we're entering a deeper lifestyle based on simulation despite today we own the best of the technology (or almost, but we're just one step away from another absurd technology revolution!🤖). A simulation, from what we wear, to how we listen to music (it's a comeback for CDs, old consoles and mobile phones💽💿). We create our own mental liminal spaces looking back at the past (this will need more space in an entry all about the liminal, let's say this is an introduction). If we have a hell of a fresh efficient technology today then why who wasn't even born in the 90s or 80s, for example, tends to go back and almost "refuses" to like and pursue a minimalistic clear and glitch-free lifestyle? Is it because life felt actually free and efficient back in those days or is it just a pleasant aesthetic without a destructive sense of nostalgia? Every decade has its own flaws and merits, I would not want to go back to how medicine or traceability for safety reason worked in the 90s. Yet what I envy is that people looked more open to socialize even through videogames or a bike, less on phones. People looked more like people with their social street life, fashion sense, their dedicated research of their inner persona (bullies and shitty people always existed of course...). Back they did not have the massive numbers of shops we have today, were you can find and buy ANYTHING with one single click, and not a single effort except in economic terms. Today influenzing finds you and not round way... while magazines were essential to buy for buying, or better for diy from a fashion inspo that you got on paper. 📚

I'm not criticizing all, I'm happy to see new generations with such an original and eccentric sense of style. One could like minimalism and be grateful for today's tech progress, there's absolutely nothing wrong with both sides! I just want to analyze myself and maybe even make you all reflect on where are we going, what do we actually need and want as a young generation. What are the forms of today's subcultures? 

If you're interested in more topics like this, let's follow each other and find an open community where we freely share nostalgic reminescences, experiences, or wishes for the future.

What would make a great discussion to dive better into this reflection? The nostalgic 90s movies? The change of the gaming industry (from low poly to millions of pixels), the change of 2000s childhood toy industry 🤹? Let me know! Stay safe out there xx ｡𖦹° :-) <3

- Ghost of Nostalgia :3 ˋ★ˎˊ*☆˚ʚ♡ɞ˚