I took a Western literature class that went from Thucydides to Philip K. Dick exploring the idea that every era which has ever been lauded as a Golden Age thought their own age was shit and looked back nostalgically at a DIFFERENT Golden Age, and I’ve thought about it every single day for 22 years - ThreadSky

clairewillett.bsky.social • 104 days ago

I took a Western literature class that went from Thucydides to Philip K. Dick exploring the idea that every era which has ever been lauded as a Golden Age thought their own age was shit and looked back nostalgically at a DIFFERENT Golden Age, and I’ve thought about it every single day for 22 years

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davidniallwilson.com•104 days ago

That's easy. I took the Biology class I was forced to take, and six months later was able to help our son extract DNA strands from a banana for exactly the same project in high school. (lol)

warmwestwind.bsky.social•104 days ago

https://zephyrdear.bandcamp.com/track/palmers-luckey-and-eldritch

philip k dick mentioned

plasticsouls.bsky.social•104 days ago

Correct

shipperxphile.bsky.social•104 days ago

I took ‘Housing for Man’ in the Home Economics department which was really just taken as an easy ‘A’ bc I was an architecture major. But it went rather deeply into mortgages, home equity, and other home finance issues which has been very helpful.

jennbb8.bsky.social•104 days ago

The History of Disease in which we discussed all major pandemics in recorded history has come in handy way more than I expected at the time

flyingpace.bsky.social•104 days ago

"The people who live in a Golden Age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks." —Randall Jarrell

marinasofia.bsky.social•104 days ago

So true!

vwoodhull938.bsky.social•104 days ago

My favorite bit of Proust was when he said we cannot appreciate art until we can be nostalgic about it.

jaffa.bsky.social•104 days ago

Classes were so much better 22 years ago ;)

jlyocum.com•104 days ago

I had a comparative lit class comparing pulp sci-fi & fantasy w/ epic poetry. It similarly lives on repeat in my mind.

Specifically: My pot-bellied bearded professor, foaming at the mouth, slapping his diagram on the chalkboard with his hands, shouting “Watership Down is the Iliad — with BUNNIES!!”

straygingercat.bsky.social•103 days ago

Whelp that's going to live rent free in my head.

althalustyde.bsky.social•103 days ago

A wonderful observation, thank you.

I think the ignorance and naivety of childhood will most often hit us as inherently better than the world we face in adulthood. It's only the confirmation bias of that ignorance then that leads us to nostalgia.

booktweeting.bsky.social•104 days ago

what a great concept for a class! that is absolutely brilliant!

nushpowell.bsky.social•104 days ago

Love this

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