Today I want to warn you about a very

powerful and dangerous drug and it's

called nostalgia. Uh nostalgia can kill

your soul. Honestly, I truly believe. Uh

it's it's very uh luxurant. It's very

tempting. Uh but it's a poison you don't

want to have too much of and it's

especially in today's world. It's all

over the place. Um now is unique to our

environment. Now everyone in all times

and places they have some pining for

their childhood or you know oh I missed

that I missed when that was here and you

know I missed when we used to do that

you know it's very natural but in our

world if you really think about it the

modern consumerous world um it's it's

almost it is a perfect storm for this uh

nostalgia that that blinds everything

because oh there's 90s nostalgia there's

80s nostalgia there's 70s nostalgia

every generation ation or not even every

generation, every couple of years, the

toys that kids play with are totally

different. The the social environment is

entirely different. When I was in high

school, it was the era of flip phones,

an era that came and went very quickly

and uh you know just a couple years

later there were no more flip phones.

Now there are smartphones. The dynamic

is entirely different. Obviously, you

know, now people are sharing pictures

and you know, all this other stuff and

that actually fundamentally trans uh

like transforms the way that people

interact. So, it's actually very normal

in the modern west especially for a

generation of people like if you know

someone who's 10 years younger than you,

the the thing the games they played, the

ways they interacted with their friends

are entirely different from the ways

that you interacted with your friends.

And in each case, there's no continuity.

There's no stability, right? So, it's

not like, oh yeah, I don't know, girls

play with dolls and boys do this. I

don't know, they play with sticks and

hit each other. You know what it it's

not like this thing that is going to be

common among generations. It's something

that actually changes all the time. And

what that means is you can't go back.

You can't go back and experience that

again. Your children are not going to

have the same experiences that you had.

Okay? And uh you know it's it's like

it's like a guy who you know let's says

let's say he really likes um he really

liked his Zelda games like his Nintendo

64 and he's like oh yeah I want to oh my

kid's going to play video games and he's

going to like that too. And um you know

it's not really the same thing because

oh well this game it's not impressive

anymore. It's it's it's old-fashioned.

It's uh it compared to the other uh slop

that I can consume it's actually not

attractive. And so what that means is,

you know, all of us are in a weird

position where the the the things that

we enjoyed as kids are just gone.

They're just dead. They're they're the

things that appear in like uh you know,

autistic people's collections of stuff.

Oh, here's uh you know, and I I still

like every once in a while, I still

remember things from my childhood. And

uh it's like that that's an entire it's

an entirely lost world because the

modern world, the consumerist world is

very much about new new things and

fattish things, things that aren't going

to last. Things that you get very

emotionally attached to and then they

disappear. Then they're gone, you know,

and all your emotional attachment was

for nothing. And that actually is is

kind of the problem. Now, I mentioned

video games. I think video games are a

fantastic example. Obviously, I think

really people should never be playing

video games, especially as individuals.

You know, if you're if you're in a party

and you're playing with other guys, I

kind of understand that. But I I think I

look at all the time that I wasted as a

kid, and it's it's a killer. But, you

know, one thing that I think is really

funny, you know, nowadays, and this

shows you the poison of nostalgia,

because ultimately, you know, people

when when they see that the world they

grew up in is gone. It's lost. There's a

part of them they want to relive it.

They want to relive that experience.

They want to go back and uh you know h

have those feelings again and you can't

do it. You can't do it not just because

the world has gone past that but even

the enjoyment itself was superficial.

You know video games are a good example.

Let me give you one. You know in video

games um nowadays don't even look this

stuff up. I know a lot of people

probably know about it, but there's this

stuff called video game speedrunning,

right? Which is the most depressing and

degenerate thing I've ever seen in my

entire life because the whole uh really

what's happening there is there are guys

again, they like some old video game.

Um, and they played it a lot as they're

as children. Now they're adults and they

have nothing to do. Their lives are

empty. So they play the game over and

over again. They optimize it. They try

to speedrun it. And then sometimes

they'll even hack into the game. uh you

know, change things around uh you know,

like create new challenges for

themselves. So, 25 years later, they're

still trying to like they're they're

taking this game from the '8s or the

'90s and they're trying to relive the

experience they had as a kid, right? And

that's what I mean by like these like

nostalgia can be a real poison in

today's society. By itself, it's not

it's not really dangerous. You know,

there's nothing wrong with looking back

at the past and remembering the good old

days, but really we should live in a

place where you know, you should be able

to go back to the school you used to go

to and um you know, kind of see the oh

the the kids are different, but it's

still the same. That's not the case

anymore. You know, in our world of rapid

change, rapid technological change, uh

mass immigration, all these kind of

things, like the world like the the

world we grew up in is constantly dying.

you know there there are there's memes

that guys have oh the world you grew up

in is gone it's constantly going it's

constantly leaving you know and um even

at the rate you know the reason this

stuff is is such a a poison some like it

really part of growing up in today's

world is kind of getting over those old

obsessions and you know obviously I

struggle with this you know when I

remember you know I I have rose tinted

glasses about a lot of the things in uh

you know my my early childhood or

something like that um but I think a lot

of it is like you you have to keep

looking forward you know and ultimately

you know my priority I think is uh you

know living in a more stable world you

know I've said this in in another video

um but uh that that's something that

people overlook and and so this stuff

like don't get in the the real thing is

like you you want those experience like

like you want the the feeling of

continuity and to to to look at children

and to look at the next generation and

say hey I've been there I've done that I

relate to that but The world as it is

now has taken that away from us because

of technological, spiritual, uh, all

kinds of change. That's a bad thing, you

know, because we're so disconnected from

every gener, you know, the generation

before us and the generation after that.

Um, there's an inherent value in that

and we want we want to have some of

that, but we can't have it. Nostalgia is

just a feeling of loss. It's a feeling

of I can't get that back. And it's it's

actually it's it's very sad. And you

know how we have to cope in a way is

just kind of order our priorities. And

you know there are a lot of the the

little things in your past that are just

going to they're going to disappear and

it does it might hurt but it doesn't

matter and you need to get over you need

to I don't know pull away from the video

game speedrunning your video game

speedrunning whatever that is and uh

focus on the stuff that matters. uh

however you know and and and I think

really the way to do that is identifying

what's really going on like we should we

want continuity uh we we want to have uh

parts of our childhood in the future

because that means that we have a future

that we can understand and control and

have a say in and the modern world

modern

consumerism this is uh very much not

that. So anyway, that's all I got to