Search Results
6/30/2025, 2:33:13 AM
>>24507205
I've come to a similar conclusion. We are a generation that yearns for a tradition that has been robbed from us. Classics are no longer taught in colleges, and academic rigor has gone down the drain. Popular culture has become entirely commercialized, and our "high art" is more concerned with defilement than beauty. Our speech, dress, and mannerisms have become childish; it is not uncommon to see adult men arguing over media made for children. My prescription is to go beyond LARPing and restore the values of the past, without resorting to mere nostalgia. For example, many cars in the past had an elegance that today's cars don't match. The nostalgic man believes this will never be recaptured. The neo-traditionalist believes it can, if and only if we exemplify the values of that era. He recognizes that the problem facing Western civilization is a spiritual one. In the nostalgic, there is a belief in the inevitable fall of man. For this reason, he doesn't bother with active resistance and retreats into his memories. The Zoomer cannot do this, since he has few memories of good times, very recent memories of bad times, and a whole life ahead of him. It is time we wake up and see nostalgia not as a fad, but as a call to action. Let us not go forward down the road which has been laid before us, but go back to the future. A good place to start is the value of timelessness. From this ideal, we can derive many values of the past, such as truth, beauty, justice, legacy, building to last, repairing rather than replacing, and more.
I've come to a similar conclusion. We are a generation that yearns for a tradition that has been robbed from us. Classics are no longer taught in colleges, and academic rigor has gone down the drain. Popular culture has become entirely commercialized, and our "high art" is more concerned with defilement than beauty. Our speech, dress, and mannerisms have become childish; it is not uncommon to see adult men arguing over media made for children. My prescription is to go beyond LARPing and restore the values of the past, without resorting to mere nostalgia. For example, many cars in the past had an elegance that today's cars don't match. The nostalgic man believes this will never be recaptured. The neo-traditionalist believes it can, if and only if we exemplify the values of that era. He recognizes that the problem facing Western civilization is a spiritual one. In the nostalgic, there is a belief in the inevitable fall of man. For this reason, he doesn't bother with active resistance and retreats into his memories. The Zoomer cannot do this, since he has few memories of good times, very recent memories of bad times, and a whole life ahead of him. It is time we wake up and see nostalgia not as a fad, but as a call to action. Let us not go forward down the road which has been laid before us, but go back to the future. A good place to start is the value of timelessness. From this ideal, we can derive many values of the past, such as truth, beauty, justice, legacy, building to last, repairing rather than replacing, and more.
Page 1