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The fallacy that everything we liked when we were kids sucked

DonZabuDonZabu
edited 2011-12-25 12:35:46 in General
Or that things were automatically worse/just as bad when we were kids as they are now, and we just don't realize it because we filter out all the bad stuff.

I see this mostly being used against people who are too nostalgic for their own good, and I understand that people want to shut that kind of thinking down, but it's really just the same sort of blanket generalization as "everything was better when I was a kid", only in reverse. Sometimes your nostalgia can mislead you, yes, but is it really that much of a stretch to say truthfully that, for example, old Spongebob is better than new Spongebob?

Comments

  • ForzareForzare
    edited 2011-12-25 12:33:30
    Till shade is gone, till water is gone, into the Shadow with teeth bared, screaming defiance with the last breath, to spit in Sightblinder’s eye on the last Day.
    I think that the whole "everything was terrible when I was a kid" thing is just as faulty as the "everything you loved as a kid is inherently better than the shit they have today" thing.
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    There's a truth to the fact that your standards as a kid were low, though.
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Yeah. I'd say that kids are more likely to be okay with stuff that sucks, but that doesn't work the other way around, necessarily.
  • DonZabuDonZabu
    Really, I'm just worn out with people trying to counter fallacious thinking with more fallacious thinking.

    But I know that's never gonna stop anyway.
  • IcalasariIcalasari
    No rainbow star
    ...I wonder if it is a fallacy to say that all fallacies suck?
  • MillerCrossMillerCross
    You can change. You can.
    They don't all suck, but they all possess faulty logic.

    It's in the definition. And thus, it's not a fallacy. 
  • OctoOcto
    I don't even call it violence when it's in self defence; I call it intelligence.
    Yeah, it wouldn't be a fallacy, but it would be a tautology.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human
    LOL A <=> A
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