11 November

Every old band has seen the massive cash-vacuum nostalgia tours now are, and are dusting off the instruments to get out there fast. The Gallagher brothers are making $100 million EACH from their tour. Nostalgia is hot right now, and is another window into status culture. Now that social media has taken over whole societies, it's created an avalanche of imitative rivalry. A population-level sameness (everybody copying everybody else), and an exponential increase in 'identity' movements to try to differentiate one another within this ocean of sameness (rivalry). Everything is now a fight, an argument, that's what the identity movements create. People fighting for status and identity, in the ocean of sameness. This creates fatigue, people become exhausted by the endless comparison and fighting. Nostalgia fills the void, people can flock to bands from 'the good old days'. Authenticity becomes the new passion. It restores hierarchy, which calms the rivalries. The bands aren't necessarily any better, but because they come from another time, they're turned into 'golden era' acts, that calm dissent. It's like Hansonites pining for the old Queen and Country, but in music.