TARTARIA, ANYONE?

 

Here is an interesting architecture mystery that arose from images people saw in pre-1880 mirrors:

The Last Antique Dealer Who Sold Pre-1880 Mirrors — What Customers Reported Seeing in Them

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAC994TScoQ

What is my take.  True, ancient structures like the Parthenon, the pyramids, even very old city buildings don't seem to have been built for five-foot-tall people.

It's notable how the theme of buried memory runs through so many areas of human experience right now.

Modern and postmodern man has indeed been focused on present and future.  

Maybe it's why this culture values youth so much, because youth is memoryless.

Youth is credulous.  Even though it pretends to be skeptical.  Yes, youth is often know-it-all.

The old are dinosaurs, antiques. 

The fact that the Boomers are now old people makes them, in a way, passé.

It's true, I think, that Boomers have gotten decadent and out of touch.  They've become what they criticized so much about their own parents.  Most of them sold out.

And it's funny how in the States, each generation has gotten its nickname.  Millenials, Gen Z, etc.

Weird.

They're domesticated.  Categorized neatly.

Of course, before all that the media concocted the Beatniks (the Beat Generation, its proper name) and the Hippies.

Then came the Me Generation (1970s).

Then the Yuppies.

What about the rest of the World?

In Chile, at least, they go nameless. It's cultural trends that get named.  La Nueva Canción Chilena. El Estallido Social.  

As for this "Urban Legend" of pre-1880 mirrors that reveal visions of Tartaria: maybe, could be.

It's one more riveting tale that keeps us inside the house, noses glued to screens.