antimeme

we are farther away from 1998 than we were from 1977 in 1998 😳

Dazed and Confused came out in 1993 and was based in 1976. 

A comparable movie today would be based in 2007

The reason that 1976 seems much more distant from 1993 than 2007 does from 2024 is that the internet has trapped us in a cultural forever-present, unable to move into the future because the things of the past never fade from sight. 

We inhabit a static, stuck, ersatz culture.

Time feels distorted due to the constant presence of past cultural artifacts