Deja Tolentino

moment of normalcy before this entire decade of turmoil.

As much as there was so much change and disruption happening in 2016, whether that's Donald Trump, whether that's Brexit, or even the rise of like Bernie Sanders.

We can do much, much better as a nation.

like feeling the burden.

There's so many, you know, people who are so excited about that.

I think there was a feeling of disruption that could be mistaken for general optimism.

And in a way, it is optimism, right?

But it is this hope for something different to come that began in 2016 that did not materialize in maybe the ways that people wanted them to.

But I think a lot of people can remember that feeling and the...

shared culture that we all had that nobody really is able to share in these days.

Yeah.

And I have, you know, noticed this

retroactive obsession for, like I said, the entire 2020s.

And especially as young people, you know, I'm 27.

Like, I shouldn't be like...

Like being 17 was the best years of my life.

No, like I swear to God, everybody, like it gets better.

No, I've always been worried in a way that like culture is too obsessed with looking back.

Right.

Because a lot of, you know, in a lot of respects, it is culture.