For whatever reason I am reminded of this HN comment after reading this blog post:

> Folk music is mostly dialectic materialist conspiracy theorists singing hymns to their oppressors.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35274237

Especially towards the end of it.

The past was not “cute” and neither is the present. But in spite of its edges the past afforded one a greater sense of whatever abstract phenomena is related to the word “cute” that escapes the present.