#+TITLE: X-Files, Nostalgia, and the Analog Glow
#+AUTHOR: arpunk 
#+DATE: <2025-08-23 Sat> 
#+OPTIONS: toc:nil
#+filetags: :life:

It's Saturday night here in Bogotá, and I'm deep into a re-watch of
The X-Files.  I'm on my 40s, and something about seeing this show
again in 2025 is hitting me hard.

It's more than just the stories.  It's the look of it.  The grain on
the screen, the way colors looked on 90s television, that whole analog
aesthetic.  It feels warmer, more real than the crystal-clear digital
stuff we have today.  Almost like a memory.

I was thinking about how different the world felt back then.  This was
a time before every mystery could be Googled and debunked in five
minutes.  The world felt bigger, and the show's premise, "The Truth Is
Out There," felt so possible because the truth really was harder to
find.  Time of unknowns.

I'm from Colombia, but watching Mulder and Scully drive through those
foggy North American landscapes, exploring local legends from
werewolves to lake monsters, to aliens and all of it, I felt like I
was right there.  It was this perfect, almost mythical version that I
felt a strange connection to, like a place I'd never been but somehow
missed.

They say "the old days were better," and maybe that's just nostalgia
talking.  Maybe I'm just missing a time when I didn't have to worry
about mortgages and the things that come with being an adult.

But I wonder, does anyone else feel this?  This deep pull to the
atmosphere of the 80s/90s?  Is it just a trick of memory, or did we
lose something when the world became so connected and so...
explained?