Two common hidden and time-wasting ideologies nostalgia and nostalgia for the new and addictive people

Hello everyone, today I would like to talk about the two ideologies that everyone in their daily lives are prone to fall into, one is nostalgia, and the other is nostalgia

The word nostalgia is known to explain the new. By the word "fan", what do I want to express? One is that there is a kind of confusion about the future. Second, lost in the expectation of the future. In short, the words nostalgia and nostalgia are two-sided, in the most popular vernacular, too much emotion is invested in the future and the past, so that it affects our present. And nostalgia and nostalgia are two fetishistic attitudes that are a kind of materialization of the past and the future. Through this attitude, we lose our true past and future.

These two feelings, almost to this bright and indelible feeling, seem to be an incomparably natural sensibility. Most people are looking forward to the future and are obsessed with the past. Because of this, only through a spiritual practice can the negative impact be minimized. And even so, I am afraid it will not be completely eliminated.

Let's start with nostalgia. Nostalgia is the feeling of love for the past and the sadness of losing the past is a bitersweet of positive feelings and negative feelings intertwined. So the characteristic of this kind of feeling is entanglement, entanglement with the past leads people to miss the present. With this constantly wasted present past there will be more tangled pasts to emerge with a perfect negative chain of closed loops. Entanglement can lead people to immerse themselves in this emotion and treat it with an aesthetic ideology. The list of highly aestheticized films with nostalgia as the theme is too numerous to mention. What I want to say here is that an anti-nostalgic movie, which you may be surprised by, is a theatrical version of Crayon Xiaoxin's "Calling the Wind and Rain!" In this very in-depth film released in 2001, the villain created a 20th-century World Expo amusement park. Adults enter this amusement park to relive their nostalgic experiences, go to cosplay their former favorite characters, and experience the streets of the past. They are immersed in this experience, refusing to enter the twenty-first century, and refusing to continue to be an adult in this film that profoundly points out how nostalgia exists as a powerful collective unconscious.

Bloch, the author of The Principle of Hope, said that "in the memory of the nostalgic, everything that belongs to the future is considered to be the past" Nostalgia paralyzes people's imagination of the future, and people leave their imagination to the glorified past. Nietzsche also said that memory is a heavy burden for people, and people should learn to be active, a kind of constructive forgetting. Only through this forgetting a new beginning is possible. Nietzsche was well aware of the dangers of nostalgia, and his eternal reincarnation was a powerful strategy for breaking it. Nietzsche believed that he must forbid himself from thinking about the 'if' question of "what ifs" in the past. This kind of thinking leads people to deny reality. Escaping into the nihilism of the other shore, a meaningless question of launching a false future through a false past, is really nothing more than an escape from the present moment.

After talking about nostalgia, where is the problem of fanning the new? Expect too much from the future. This kind of feeling is something that everyone can hardly avoid. I mean the future can be near or far. For example, if you think that this article is too good to write, it will definitely stir up thousands of waves and warm responses as soon as it is sent out. It backfired, and you were depressed for a long time, which can be regarded as excessive expectations for the future. Or how you feel that you will have to be ten years from now, immersed in this kind of thinking about the future every day, which can also be regarded as excessive expectations for the future. In short, in this excessive expectation, people pin down a redemptive religious emotion, a superstition about the future, and hope for the future. It's a simple emotion of ours. But if this emotion rises to a certain level, excessive expectations will lead to despair, and people will soon be immersed in disappointment at the future that has come. And the immersion of this feeling will also make you continue to miss more of the future. Here we must strictly stipulate that the new is new, not only the excessive expectation of the future is a kind of new, but also the excessive despair of the future is also a kind of new. There is such a scene in the Simpsons family, which can illustrate this ironically. A life coach told Homer to literally understand this sentence by saying that he would come to Homer every day as his last day. Then I spent the whole day crying, and I still had so many things I wanted to do. And not really do anything. So how to deal with the attitude towards the future, I think the simplest and easiest way to be operable is to have hope for the future at the same time, not to forget the despair of the future, and when there is despair about the future, do not forget the hope of the future. Whether it is hope or despair, only when there is an opposite to limit it, will it not fall into a kind of arbitrary idealism.

As Mr. Lu Xun said, despair is the same as hope, and faith in the future must be based on broken thoughts, and vice versa. How to deal with this nostalgia and fanfare from a more philosophical point of view? Let's look at one of Benjamin's reflections on the philosophy of time— the New Angel. (Despair is falsehood, just like hope This sentence is from Petofi's letter of July 17, 1847 to his friend Kereni Frigesh.)

Benjamin's new angels turn their backs on the future and face the past. Benjamin said

This angel is willing to stop and awaken the dead and turn what has been broken into a whole. But a storm blew from heaven, and it grabbed its wings so violently that the angels could not close them. This storm irresistibly pushed it into the future to which he had his back to him. At the same time, the debris in front of him was piling up bigger and bigger, towering into the clouds, and this storm was what we call progress.

Let me explain. Benjamin believed that the past was a accumulation of fragments, and that the so-called future was actually a blind storm. This storm is what we call progress, an ideology. This passage can be understood as both a rebellion against nostalgia and a protest against the new. Nostalgia misses the ideal object, which is illuminated by a seductive light, while Benjamin's cruel angels in the past saw piles of almost unrecognizable fragments. These fragments are hidden in obscurity. The dialectic of time changes the future by saving the past, which requires us to abandon both the past and the future in general. The past does not exist, only fragments exist, and the future has not really come. The so-called future is just an empty homogeneous time wrapped in a storm. When we see the past and the future as a self-evident thing, it's easy to fall into nostalgia and new ideologies. Because nostalgia and nostalgia are inherently a rather "natural" feeling. Spinoza said that we can understand the structure of feelings through reason, but even so, we cannot fully control our feelings. Not to mention nostalgia and nostalgia, which are more enduring and more secretive than the average feeling.

These two ideological feelings, like the transcendental illusions that Kant called, cannot be eliminated, but can only be constantly suppressed. To sum up, when I say we don't want nostalgia and nostalgia, I'm not saying we should just look at the present and ignore the past and the future. I am not going to belittle the past and the future, as the Epicureans or the Stoics did

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Main reference: Bloch's Principles of Hope

Nietzsche's "So Says Zarathustra"

Benjamin's Compendium of the Philosophy of History

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