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Message: <blockquote data-quote="overgeeked" data-source="post: 8588108" data-attributes="member: 86653">Modern philosophy has basically been worthless since they got hung up on the is-ought problem. Except Camus. He knew what was up.The short version is: watch the video.The text, and probably wrong, version is:In the present, we're haunted by the mythologized past. That mythologized past erases the historical past. White washing history, basically. Things were better when. But, we cling to that lie when the reality is things were terrible. We focus on the good and ignore the bad. People seeing the 1950s as an economic boom, but ignoring equal rights, civil rights, women's rights, etc. And that we build up the mythologized past as an escape from the dreary present. But, other writers have also posited that we're not only haunted by the past, but haunted by the lost potential futures that could have been. Like the vision of the future as seen by people in the 1950s. Not only are we haunted by the mythologized past of the 1950s...we're further haunted by that past's vision of the future...that lost potential we failed to realize...which is now irrevocably lost to us. Not living up to the past's starry-eyed vision of the future (our present) makes us dissatisfied with the present, and as a means to escape the present, we mythologize the past...this kind of weird psychological loop.</blockquote>