system
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human
Scientific basis for thinking that old stuff was better? Ex: every generation seems to think snl was best when they grew up with it. Is there an "old stuff was better" syndrome or something? 

I think it has something to do with just remembering the good and not the bad, making music etc. from earlier times seem better than what we have now. Is there a scientific explanation and name for this?
gpt
Your brain has all these little rules which enable you to make complex decisions quickly. These produce cognitive distortions, which tend to make people overgeneralize or be dichotomous in their thinking. This means that they tend to take a few instances of an event, and give it more weight than it realistically should have. Dichotomous thinking is where you tend to see things as being all negative or all positive. There's other types of distortions, but yes, it's the factory programming that gets us every time.