Dear Hipster:
You’d have to be a dummy to ignore the profligacy of remakes, reboots, and retro-themed books, music, and movies that have cropped up with increasing frequency over the course of the past decade. I don’t have any hard metrics to measure this, but my gut tells me we’re hitting all-time highs for all of that stuff. My theory as to why is that our current society is sort of, you know, lame and lackluster. There’s obviously been some newsworthy events recently, but I doubt people in the future will look back on this as some kind of influential period in history, except for the pace of vaccine developments, of course. Because of that, people are trying to borrow old ideas to freshen up the paradigm, or whatever, because there’s a shortage of fresh ideas to go around right now. Is it possible the prevalence of escapist fantasy and retro nostalgia is directly correlated to the boringness of life?