>"Being an adult is awesome"
>"I want to go back to the past"
Why are these mutually exclusive? You think I want to be a child again? Fuck no. I don't want my helicopter mom deciding what I wear, what I eat, how my hair should be cut, and frantically driving around looking for me if I dared wander off from the culdesac only to scream at me later. Yeah, I definitely missed all of that, and the hordes of shitty fairweather friends I had over the years, or the kids who made fun of me in school, or the various dumb cunts I swapped spit with who never amounted to anything... Why the fuck would I miss any of that? Being an adult is awesome.
But does that mean I'm not nostalgic for the things in my troubled adolescence that were actually good? Absolutely not. I don't play old video games and watch old DVDs on a CRT because it takes me back to some amazing time in my life, I do it because A) I enjoy this stuff compared to modern alternatives for various objective reasons, and B) because it reminds of the good things I had in an absolute sea of miserable adolescent experiences.
I'll grant you that dudes who entomb themselves with old Nintendo Power magazines and plushy dolls and toys and all of that shit... yeah, they're mentally ill. For me, I see no harm in saying, "Wow, I really enjoyed playing my N64 on that little buzzy tube TV back in the day... I should do that again", and then proceeding to do it. I'm not trying to avoid adulthood by doing this, I'm just reliving something good from the past. Reliving the past is not a problem, the problem is when you use it as a replacement for the present. The modern world is incredibly cucked and there's plenty I hate about it, but there's also plenty I like it about. I'll continue merging the best of both worlds until I achieve some kind of gnosis.
