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by smackeyacky 36 days ago
I did read somewhere that Gen X are the last gen in modern societies to see anything real. Everything is just a simulation of older things. All the stupid bars nd cafes with rustic wood and old timey aesthetics for example.
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> All the stupid bars nd cafes with rustic wood and old timey aesthetics for example.

Surely that's been a thing for decades. In the 70s, there were bars that harked back to the 1920s. Nostalgia is a hell of a drug

i mean i can find an art-deco "speakeasy" downtown right now, today. novelty trumps nostalgia