Maybe this is mean of me but nothing makes me more sad than people in the comments of video game OSTs saying their lives peaked when they played some PS1 game at age 9.
Idk like, we don't have to sit in idle mourning for childhood all the time, there are ways to improve your life and reclaim a new, adult sense of wonder with the world.
A lot has been said about how mainstream nerd-consumerist culture encourages a never ending pursuit of the exact sensory experience of being a child, hoping Mario will one day sweep you off your feet for the first time all over again, etc etc.
It just seems so ugly to me. The idea that happiness only exists in suburban ignorance. Finding joy in spite of earth's barbs is so powerful and fulfilling in a way that raw childlike wonder is just incompatible with. Let us love the world with all its faults in our hands! Let us love one another!
