Updating is reversible into downdating the present into the past

Evidence

Even though Little Axe are apt to be described as ‘updating the blues for the 21st century’ they could equally be seen as downdating the 21st century into the early 20th. — Mark Fisher, Ghosts of My Life, 301

Categorization

• recurring: this claim recurs 2 times within its source
• XREF: connects to: Present projects retroactively decide whether a past period counts as continuous or repudiated — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 1188; Civilizational decay is reversible through intentional renewal — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 836; The For-itself retroactively constitutes the past from which it appears born — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness: An Essay on…, 479

Broader Connections

• The For-itself retroactively constitutes the past from which it appears born #expands (0.85) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 479
• Present projects retroactively decide whether a past period counts as continuous or repudiated #expands (0.80) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 1188
• Civilizational decay is reversible through intentional renewal #corroborates (0.70) — Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilizations and the…, 836