Hauntology, Lost Futures and 80s Nostalgia

I do find refreshing to appreciate the present moment without tainting it with the impurities of the past and the future, a meaningless present is powerful because it is to me the definition of being alive.

That said, for practicality we need to define moments based on their contextual time, and our contextual time is the period we live on.

Which to me it is the best of both worlds. Living in 1999 I can watch a 1999 movie, or a 1989 movie, but I can't watch a 2009, or a 2019 movie. In 2019 I can't watch all 4.

To me just because the 2000s, 90s, and 80s are a thing of the past, it doesn't mean they cease to exist, just like the 20s, 50s, 60s, and even medieval times, classical times, renaissance times, or anything from the romantic period, ancient Rome, ancient Greek, or ancient Egypt. They will always be there. You can't erase those.

We can prove this now with the invention of video, and sound recording, but just because we can prove it now, it doesn't mean it wasn't always like that, it was.

Every moment in your life is eternal, even after you die, your actions, are still recorded in time, for all eternity. Time is just a perspective, it is relative to our point of view, both future and past coexist within the same present space, we just can't see it because movement blinds us, but they are there.

Now I do agree future is a tricky thing because it is constantly changing, but I also believe those lost futures also remain, just on a different timeline we didn't happen to walk on.

You see, every decision you make has a consequence and it changes the future, but before you made that decision, another future was already made, what you choose is not going to destroy that future already made, what you choose is simply creating a new future, leaving that one already made, aside.

I feel nostalgia is the wrong approach to explain the sentiment for other periods. We often fall in love for styles of periods we never got to see because we were not even born yet, at least not in this life.

I for example love the psyche behind the music of Chopin, an 1800s musician of the same generation of Liszt. The Castlevania vision of the world, which it is an 80s thing, since Castlevania was made in the 80s, but let's not forget, the 80s were influenced by their own past including the 50s, the early 60s, and even their personal futuristic views.

Which brings me back to the point that at any given time only the present exists, and that future and past are within that present, we just can't see it. So it is not that we are perceiving the world under the influence of those three perspectives, it is that those three perspectives are what constitute the world, and they are not different from each other.