Cognitive Biases
  • Memory
  • Belief
  • Social
  • Politics

Declinism

We tend to romanticize the past and view the future negatively, believing that societies and institutions are by and large in decline.

Example“Music was so much better when I was young. Nobody makes anything worth listening to anymore.”
What to doCompare the past with data rather than memory; nostalgia edits out the bad days.