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A few questions went through my as I read this being incredibly nostalgic this past year as well: 1. Do post-life altering events like a pandemic stoke hidden
by biscuits1 3y ago
A few questions went through my as I read this being incredibly nostalgic this past year as well:
1. Do post-life altering events like a pandemic stoke hidden nostalgic behaviors at a higher degree of a population?
2. What percentage of great creative works (any kind) were the result of revelry of that nostalgic wave of thinking?
Obviously this work is a meta result.
As someone wise said to me once "the past is a nice place to visit, but I won't want to live there." I'll extend this thought "If I'm there, I'll harness it to produce art."
- autokad 3y agoBack to the Future, as exciting as it was when it came out, is essentially a movie of Nostalgia. I remember in the 80s how big the 50s and 60s nostalgia was. Now we are going through a similar thing by looking back on the 80s and 90s. I do agree with the author that nostalgia is not just about remembering when times were 'good'. I sometimes get nostalgic about times I was sick. However, I do think its more than just 'the inertness of the past'. I imagine nostalgia serves many purposes, including ones that are orthogonal to each other.