Nostalgia

Everyone loves nostalgia right? We love looking back on what was and hyping it up like it was the pinnacle of life, I know I do. I've been doing it a lot since I turned 18 on Saturday, and to be frank, it's something I need to stop.

I understand that some things are like wine and they get better like age. For example, I'm watching the Stone Cold vs Bret Hart submission match from Wrestlemania 13 (about 12 years ago) and it's still in my mind one of the best wrestling matches of all time. I think it's even better after a decade. Other things seem to fall into this realm with people, like Sinatra or the Blue Album.


No one seems to mention the things that age like milk though. I mentioned on my Twitter yesterday that I was watching the pilot to Power Rangers? Why? No idea, but I did, and I realized that even if I was 4 at the time, the show was truly a horrible abomination of spliced foreign footage and early 90's teenage stereotypes. It gives me hope that in another decade people will look back on Katy Perry like I looked at the Red Ranger.


Overall nostalgia is pretty worthless. It serves no purpose and you know it but you indulge in it anyway. I'm the same way and that's what sucks. TV, movies, videogames, music, whatever wasn't better 5 years ago, or even 10 years ago. It's pretty much the same thing. There was no media genesis just because you decided Toonami was better than Cartoon Network today. It's all the same.


That's my public service announcement for the week. Now if you excuse me I'm going to go play Goldeneye 64 because back in '97 they knew how to make a good first person shooter.