🧩 BND Motif Index · M459
The old way was better
A newer technology or way of doing things is said to be worse than what it replaced, and people want the old one back.
- 3claims filed under it
- 1left show it came up on
- 1right show it came up on
- 2claims retold online
⚠️ A story people tell, not a claim that it's true.
A motif is the shape of a story as its tellers tell it, named the way a folklorist names a tale type, so the same story told about other people, by the other side or in another year lands in the same place. Some of the claims below are true, many are false. Arguing against a story is often a story of its own, its answer (Voter fraud is answered by Voter suppression, Lawfare by No one is above the law), and we file it there; where no answer has a motif yet, the arguments against a story sit with its tellings.
🪜 Its family
what it rests on, what rests on it, and the motifs that answer it
⤵️ under it: 🧩 They don't make 'em like they used to 🧩 The sequel is never as good
🔗 goes with: 🧩 Form over function 🧩 Lost golden age
🎙️ Who it came up with
the shows we follow where its claims came up, by the show's lean
🫏 left 1
⚖️ center 0
🦗 none of our center shows, so far
🐘 right 1
"Came up on" means one of its claims was heard on the show: told, reported or argued against. We don't yet mark which. Show leans are our own grouping of the shows we transcribe.
🧶 Its claims
what's been told in this shape, newest first, in our words, with where each was heard
- 2026-10-24 “Without contact damage players just run past the enemies, so the game had to bolt on rewards and challenges to make you fight them.” 🧶 people online
- 2026-10-08 “A firing squad is a more humane and effective method of execution than lethal injection.”
🎙️ The Young Turks (podcast) 🎙️ Clay Travis & Buck Sexton - 2026-10-06 “Touchscreens in cars are dangerous, inefficient, and poorly designed, and tactile controls like knobs, buttons, and switches are superior for driving safety and control.” 🧶 people online
M459 · first seen 2026-10-06 · last 2026-10-24 · what this is · how the index works