Originally Posted by
bocobiking
To claim that the latest invention is objectively better seems like a rhetorical way to impose one's values on everyone else. To say that everyone else is motivated merely by nostalgia is patronizing.
Yeah, but saying something like, oh, I don't know, maybe "it seems to me that all the rationales for a new product are created afterward to justify our thirst for a new toy," isn't patronizing at all.