“Say not, ‘Why were the former days better than these?’ For it is not from wisdom that you ask this.” (ESV – Read the chapter)
Have you ever longed for the “good old days”? Why? What about them did you desire? Simpler times? Different social interactions? Fewer burdens? No social media?
I have come to the conclusion that one of the major false gods of our culture is called Nostalgia. The thing about Nostalgia, though, is that he is subtle. No one realizes they are worshiping him at first, and even if you were to point it out to them, they’d just respond, “No, I’m not. I’m just reminiscing about the way things were.”
And yet, this is what the worship of Nostalgia looks like. We come to his altar and offer sacrifices of time and memory. We offer cynicism about the current state of the world. We offer judgments of people who are younger than we are. In return, he gives us warm feelings about the past that are a comforting salve for the pressures of the present. Read the rest…
The Nexus 