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Self cultivation & the cultivation of appetites are not the same, but contraries. For as you truly cultivate yourself, your appetites diminish.

"Honestly I think this whole thing kicked off with the 50s nostalgia of the 70s. I'm not an anthropologist, but I think that was a cynical reactionary wave perpetrated by people who were too square for the 60s...I don't think nostalgia mining by volume has been increasing—my experience was that 60s nostalgia in the 80s was the peak of nostalgia culture saturation—but it has moved from being just a marketing ploy, thanks in large part to meme culture. I mean we went from image macros of 'only 90s kids will remember!' to entire music genres re-imagining a past that never existed."