By 1920 or so, the 19th century had come to seem as relatively regressive as the 20th century had by 2020. Feeling modern and “with it” is a fleeting thing. Half life of a few decades. Even if you die on the cultural bleeding edge the memory of you will seem regressive in 50y.
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Basically everybody is either meme-mummified into a caricature or canceled within a century or so of their death if they’re remembered at all, and if they’re remembered as part of a historical people they’re canceled en masse.
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You can and should try to be the most modern kind of human possible while alive but getting attached to being understood as such, especially forever, is a kind of weird delusion. And being regressive while alive is a kind of acting dead. You’ll get there after you’re dead anyway.
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Perhaps the interesting thing to do is own and represent whatever your era will eventually come to represent in the historical imagination. I’m kinda happy to represent 1974-20xx in whatever cartoon the 22nd century makes up about us.

