I hate the past. To me, the past is something we should learn from but never return to. I have no desire to return to the days where gay and the r-slur were every day jokes and and “Tits or gtfo” was a common reply to women on the internet.
But I love old machines and gizmos. I love gears and levers and buttons. I love things that clunk and whir. Vinage music boxes, Clockwork toys and VHS machines that sound like they’re trying to go into orbit when you rewind a cassette. I’ve always liked old stuff for as long as I can remember.
Is it nostalgia or just autism? Is it something I should be ashamed of?
old tech is cool, we used to do things in weird elaborate ways and that made it charming in a way i can’t put into words.
sure, flatscreens are better in almost every way, but CRTs created super high voltage to shoot focused electron beans then magnetically bent them super fast with unbelievably precise control into a coated grid to make an image, isn’t that neat?
yeah, EVs are great, but combustion engines are engineering marvels built from intricate clockwork timed and sized just right to extract as much movement as possible from exploding a whiff of flammable liquid. how cool is that?
Im trying to find that a quote from matrix 2 where a guy talks about knowing hiw to operate his mech but having no idea how it works