Main/Nostalgia Filter - Television Tropes & Idioms
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There is a tendency for adults and some teenagers to see newer material in a medium (be it music, film, animation, or comic books) as inferior to the older classics that they knew in their youth.
There are many causes for this. First, people's tastes are generally based on the art they knew as they grew up, and they continue to inform themselves on this basis. Second, tastes refine as one matures; what may have seemed brilliant to a child or teen would seem crude or laughable to most adults, but the memories of how great something from one's youth seemed linger long afterward, making the familiar examples seem better than more or less equivalent modern ones in comparison. Third, change in most art forms comes in waves, rather than developing continuously, and the transition from one wave to another can be jarring and unfamiliar — while the periods between waves tend to be uninspired across the board.
However, it is likely that the most important cause of this nostalgia is a consequence of Sturgeon's Law combined with the passage of time: As new material is released, the vast majority will be of mediocre or worse quality, but over time, a powerful selection pressure causes all but the best material (and in some infamous cases, the worst) to be rapidly forgotten, leaving an increasingly inaccurate impression of the overall quality of the genre over time. This is known as "the nostalgia filter", and can be easily demonstrated by a careful review of the period works that are not remembered today.
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Wir vergessen also alles bis auf die guten Sachen...
Mit dieser Logik müsste ich aber aktuell was zu Closelobsters https://www.best-of-80s.de/musik-allgeme ... 3-a-21910/ beitragen können.
Ich hab aber keine guten Sachen, die ich für ein "daaaamals (TM) 2013, als noch die ganzen tollen Sachen in den Charts waren" behalten kann...
Den Film "Midnight in Paris" zog ich mir gerade rein, der dieses Thema wunderbar humorvoll aufgreift (und auch im Artikel erwähnt wird):
"This is a big part of the plot of Woody Allen's Midnight in Paris. The story features Gil, a writer played by Owen Wilson, who is writing a novel about a man that runs a nostalgia shop, and the writer himself has a nostalgic view of the 1920s in Paris as a sort of Golden Age, something that his fiance and her family constantly rag on him for. Eventually, Gil discovers a mysterious taxi cab that arrives every night at midnight and transports him back to a nostalgia filtered 1920s Paris, where he meets many famous authors and falls in love with Adriana, a woman who is at the time Picasso's mistress. As time goes on, the writer discovers that Adriana has feelings for him too and decides to live in the 1920s with her. However, soon after Gil confesses his love for Adriana, they are picked up by a mysterious carriage that transports them back to La Belle Epoque of the late 1800s, where they meet various artists, writers, and other famous folk. Adrianna immediately proposes they stay here, as in her mind, this is the Golden Age of Paris. However, the artists of that era pine for the The Renaissance. Gil decides that despite the allure of the nostalgia filter, it's best to take the present for what it is, and decides to go back to the present."
Schön auch das Beispiel über Nintendo:
"In general, gaming systems that are highly regarded in retrospect tend to be subjected to this. For example, the Super NES is now considered to be one of the greatest gaming systems of all time. However, many people either forget or simply don't realize that, during its time, it was criticized quite a bit by the video game community. With the main criticism being that western game developers seemed to prefer the Genesis, due to Sega's looser censorship policies and the system's generally more American-friendly image. Granted, the Japanese game industry was still the dominant force in gaming at the time (this wouldn't really begin to change until the X-Box came out). But the comparable lack of support from big name western developers like Electronic Arts was considered a major drawback to the SNES at the time (its support from Japanese developers, on the other hand, was almost unparalleled)."
Ich hätte da noch was aus dem Motorsport beizutragen:
Ayrton Senna wird heute als die Lichtgestalt unter den F1 Piloten behandelt - sein Charakter als vorbildlich beschrieben, ein Musterbeispiel für einen wirklich großartigen Fahrer. Manchmal traue ich meinen Augen und Ohren kaum, wenn ich mitbekomme was da geschrieben und erzählt wird.
Es wird einfach vergessen (oder man hat es nie gewusst), wie Senna daaamals (TM) im Quali in Monaco rumrollte, um anderen gute Zeiten zu versauen, oder wie er sich in Suzuka bei Tempo 250 absichtlich zum WM Titel rammte, oder Prost gegen die Boxenmauer puschte... Klar, Senna war einer der absolut schnellsten Fahrer aller Zeiten - aber seine dunkle Seite wird heute fast vollständig unter den Teppich gekehrt...
Ich würde da eher einen Jackie Stewart als Vorbild vorschlagen - für diesen sauschnellen und fairen Gentleman braucht man auch keinen Nostalgie Filter, aber ich schweife ab
