“Hey, remember way back in 1999? Did they even have music that long ago?”

My friend Rob once shared his theory of nostalgia with me: it’s catching up to us, and so as a society we’re growing more and more nostalgic for periods in time closer and closer to the present day. Soon enough, we’ll see commemorative specials on something that happened a month, a week, a day in the past. “Remember two hours ago?” we’ll ask wistfully. “Wasn’t that great?” And then, when nostalgia finally catches up to us, the universe will end.