Don't be so hard on the past

Because no one can predict the future

“I used to be with it, but then they changed what it was. Now what I'm with isn't it,
and what's it seems weird and scary to me. It'll happen to you.”
–Abraham Simpson

People keep telling me that a work of art “didn’t age well.” This seems to mean that the work endorses (or contains) ideas that are considered passé. Fine, but I find this form of critique …