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The “good ol’ days” myth
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”—Marcel Proust Here is the thing about pining for the “good ol’ days”:
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Our love affair with nostalgia
“Nostalgia is rarely antiquarian, a mere interest in history qua history. It is more commonly a sentimental pining for “the way it was.” Such nostalgia is always a form of arrested development. For example, there are sorts of nostalgia that are not-so-subtle longings for adolescence and thus resent adulthood. Many forms of collective nostalgia demonize the present while luxuriating in…
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