The Picard ManeuverWhich was the style at the time
HonytawkThe movie may be that old, but that doesn’t say anything about the meme.
This meme also isn’t +100 years old:
ObiThis one is really fascinating TBH. It’s like they did this after a lifetime of scrolling 9gag.
I’m probably one of the older users on this site, and can say with depressing clarity that everything just repeats over and over. The details, tone and accessories may change through the decades, but the rest stays the same, just this flat circle spinning 'round and round forever.
Dozzi92I really understand how people with otherwise good lives get to an age where they no longer want to live forever.
I kinda take solace in this a bit. I’m 38, got young kids, and I don’t generally stop to think about my mortality but when I do it’s always with the thought that I’d miss stuff, mainly related to my kids and them growing and us all being a family. But presumably the rigors of life just become life, and you get to a point where you’re okay saying “Welp, that’s enough!” Perhaps I’m just rationalizing my future fears or something, I dunno, but that’s my hope, that I’ll reach an age where I can comfortably say I think I’ve seen it all, or seen enough that I can go peacefully into nothingness.
Obviously the darker alternative is that I’ve seen enough pain and I can’t take anymore. But I am not here for that! Good feelings only!
I feel it’s a little of column A and a little of column B.
But what happens is all the good stuff, the bad stuff, everything in between, it just stacks up and stacks up. You get bored with a lot of things because you’ve seen it all before so many times. I cannot stand “new” movies because I’ve seen them all before in other forms. I am disappointed by tragic things humans do, even with current problems in society, it’s new specifics but the broad story is the same. I see people debating things that they were debating 30 years ago. I see people voting against their best interest just a few years after doing the same thing.
What burns you out on life broadly, not in a dark, depressing way, is just the utter lack of novelty after a while. You will want to see more new things, you will want to travel and try new foods and experience new things, but even that all starts to feel cyclical.
After a point, and I’m not entirely there yet, I am quite certain that with few other things in my life I will feel a draw to a great unknown, because there’s nothing new left here to surprise me.
I’m not the penguin walking to the mountains yet, my community needs me and I need them… but I always have a side-eye to the mountains and a little voice in the back of my head: “Someday.”
Are you also cyclical? If not, why are you special? If yes, how can you get bored as that would be something new?
I have delved deep and hard into my own limitations and contradictions and predictable responses as a life form and as a complicated human entity. That part is even more soul-crushing because if I have learned how limited I really am and how predictable my brain is, and it means that the average person who doesn’t meditate or contemplate their own thinking must be either far more trapped in cyclic behavior, or even more crushing… far happier.