Why is chudnostalgia such a prevalent feeling across the globe?

The world has changed too much for old illusions to return. Once people have seen through a belief system—whether religion, nationalism, or the myths of progress—they can’t unsee it. Even if they try to revive tradition, it feels artificial, because they now recognize it as something constructed, not something absolute. This is why modern attempts at religious or cultural revival feel forced, hollow, and self-conscious. The comfort of the past was based on not knowing—people believed because the world around them reinforced their beliefs as unquestionable truth. But once an illusion is shattered, it loses its power. No matter how much people long for the simplicity of faith, authority, or collective identity, the modern mind is too aware of contradictions, alternatives, and the sheer complexity of reality to return to blind belief.

This collapse of illusion is painful, but it’s necessary. People are being forced to face reality without the comforting myths that once structured human life. For many, this creates despair, nihilism, or reactionary attempts to reconstruct the past. But the only real way forward is transcendence—going beyond the need for illusion rather than trying to resurrect it. Instead of clinging to outdated belief systems or sinking into nihilism, individuals must develop a deeper, self-sustained sense of meaning—one that doesn’t depend on external myths. This is the true test of the modern era: whether people can evolve beyond illusions without falling into hopelessness. Most will struggle with this transition, but for those who succeed, a new kind of existence is possible—one based on clarity, direct experience, and inner stability, rather than on borrowed fantasies.

>>17787340 (OP)
Because the world was shit now
>It was always shit!!
Yeah but now it's especially obvious

>>17787347
the world is shit now*

>>17787340 (OP)
The original 50s poster was an Australian who routinely baited the reactionary retards on this board by blaming the loss of this idyllic hotdog advertisement lifestyle on da libz.

>One longs for a time when life did not feel like such a bleak and weary journey. When even amidst hardship, one could still look to the horizon and believe that, in the end, it would all make sense. That the pieces would fall into place. That the struggle, somehow, meant something. But such hope no longer seems possible. At least, not in our time.

>>17787340 (OP)
Lost futures. Read Mark Fisher.

Back in those days, people had wild hopes about the future. They didn't consider their own lives amazing (those posters were literally just ads, the 1950s equivalent of shitty Alegria corporate art), they were discontent with many things about the present. But there was a general sense that the future will be better.

Just compare popular science fiction of than and today. Then, it was depicting abundant societies that solved their worst problems, all the conflicts happened in the peripheries in space, where people went out to find adventure. Today, the most popular genres of science fiction are dytopias and post-apocalpyse.

Why is that? Because we know from that older art that the amazing futures past generations expected didn't come true, so there is a general cynicism regarding the future which in turn leads to people projecting utopia to an imagined past.

They are comparing an observable present (which is shitty) with an imagined past that never existed.

Early Yugoslavia and other communist nations set the goal to increase living space per capita to around 9-10 sqm. Yep, INCREASE. Because it was lower than that in the 1950s and most rural peasant housing lacked the most basic amenities.

An extremely far cry from what this fantasy writer is painting.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02665433.2023.2271885#d1e241

>>17787340 (OP)
>no infinite migration from the Indian subcontinent
send the jews back too and I'm in

>using propaganda pictures as objective fact
this isn't funny after the billionth time

>>17787340 (OP)
>Why is chudnostalgia such a prevalent feeling across the globe?

nobody in Czechia wishes the 1950s back. please anything but that.

>>17787340 (OP)
they recognize 1950 had some semblance of high quality social life.
>>17787342
thanks chatgpt.
>>17787352
she actually threw the b8 to shitlibs. I know because I was one of the top VGH posters and shitlibs fall for it everytime.
If you even suggest a healthy social life is more important than trannies, black pipo, or anti depressants shitlibs will go ballistic.
>>17787823
its not about the year 1950 as much as it is about the pre-internet pre-jewish time.

>>17787730
>propaganda
as opposed to what? Are we supposed to believe people had no social life?
Are we supposed to believe ads like a family didnt reflect reality because they were ads???
>no one ever got married no one ever had a family those are just advertisements

This is why youre getting strung up by piano wire.

>>17787342
^

>>17787841
>>17787845

>>17787342
>—
kill yourself

>>17787849
Doesn't mean I can't agree with it.

>>17787841
>its not about the year 1950 as much as it is about the pre-internet pre-jewish time.
>there were no Jews in the '50s
Uh...

>>17787851

>>17787340 (OP)
because neoliberalism has been a disaster around the globe for ordinary people, simple as
"the present is better" is nice as a mantra but it doesn't mean much when it just means corporate bailouts and new technology to help disempower you and let the boss squeeze harder

>>17787730
Everything in the OP is an objective fact, though.
Except Yugoslavia's economy wasn't that utopian (plenty of Yugos became Gastarbeiter in West Germany because the wages were higher there, and sent a shitton of remittances to Yugoslavia)

>>17787823
It's not necessarily about the 1950s

I've seen people do this about 90s and even 00s
I think it's a way to avoid having to have solutions or think fowardly by just believing that the perfect world existed in the past but was taken away from us and so "we just have to go back"
Utopian thinking but just in the past rather than in the future

>>17787841
>liberals destroyed America!
>*150+ posts about niggers and trannies*
No, I'm pretty sure it was a right winger baiting other right wingers.

>>17787841
>pre-jewish
The 1950s in the US were a pretty good time to be Jewish.

>>17787849
>AI thinks for me
How embarrassing, you're a loser

>>17790603
AI thinks for me? Bro you don’t even think for you. Next you'll tell me books are cheating too.

>>17790630
Next I'll tell you your place is doimg hard labor in a stone quarry

>>17790634
Bro you can’t even operate a microwave without instructions. Thanks for confirming you have nothing but larp threats and caveman delusions. AI 1, cope 0.

>>17787849
>>17790630
AI is only useful for 2 things, shitposting and outsourcing of tedious tasks, including searching the net. Google is so shit now that Chatgpt can find useful results more quickly than you can google them. This wasn't the case just 5 years ago though.

>>17790649
At the end of the day, it's just Google stapled to a word processor with good autocomplete. Useful, but not magic.