>>186607Life is more magical than ever and humanity is more interesting than ever. There's also no such thing as being disconnected from reality. Reality has changed, that's all.
The people you admire had the right mentality. They loved their own era and they appreciated what made it unique. Kerouac was very contemporary and modern and celebrate the novelties of his age. The jazz, the fast cars, the open road. He didn't sit around whining about not having a horse carriage. And here you are with the technology and economical opportunity to visit places all over the world at the drop of a hat. You can walk through the Sahara, dive at the Great Barrier Reef, gobble Ayahuasca by the Amazon and See the northern lights in Iceland within weeks if not days. Yet you long for driving an old Ford through Kansas listening to shitty AM radio or building a shack on your friend's land and chilling by a lake. Those things are still possible, in addition to a lot more.
Don't hate the here and now because people described the past so beautifully, but become one of those people who glorifies the present like those people did in the past.
