By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026I think about this quote whenever I get angry at the technology around me. When I rail against the Great Enshittening, am I simply committing the sin of nostalgia ("Nostalgia is a toxic impulse" -J. Hodgman)? I am, after all, *old*. 3/ 11107
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026I've written before how conservatives' yearning for "simpler times" is really just a wish to be a child again. 4/ 21179
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026The reason times seemed simpler during your childhood is *that you were a child*, and if your parents did their job, they shielded you from a lot of the complexity of *their* adulthood so you could enjoy *your* childhood: pluralistic.net/2025/04/24/h... 5/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Every complex ecosystem has parasites (24 Apr 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 218328
