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(Mid 90's Crisis) | |
May 15, 2020 | |
I know what I was doing in '94. I was BBSing, reading alt.magick, and | |
digging into gopher for MUD links. And, I was very lonely, feral, | |
unsupervised, and 15. I've been able to move forward from those dark | |
times by abandoning sentiment and attachment to the familiar and by | |
focusing on progress and growth. I had mostly disdain for nostalgia and | |
sentiment, it seemed like dead weight. Now in 2020, I'm pretty happy, I | |
have a great relationship, and have a life together, and am phlogging on | |
gopher, and thinking about loading up tin and seeing if alt.magick is full | |
of wizards and witches discussing Gematria. | |
I'd like to think that there's some greater value to the world in sdf.org | |
and this world of retro internet. And no doubt there is a need for what | |
sdf offers, more signal less noise, privacy, and control. But to be | |
perfectly honest, I'm just finally surrendering to nostalgia. The boomers | |
had their Happy Days, I have my retro-net, and the Millenials will be just | |
be playing Pokemon all the way through the end of their years. They seem | |
to be born nostalgic, nostalgic about things they never even lived, even. | |
I can hang with that. | |