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David Berry

On Nostalgia

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  • mrkartofel04227has quoted3 years ago
    Because it is comforting, because it is essential, because it is inevitable, nostalgia will always be an easy way in.
  • mrkartofel04227has quoted3 years ago
    Nostalgia is always just as comforting, because it is always drawing us back to ourselves. Nostalgia is the selfie of subject matter
  • mrkartofel04227has quoted3 years ago
    As often as not, creating something revolutionarily new simply means finding a different set of reference points than the ones used by whatever is currently dominant
  • mrkartofel04227has quoted3 years ago
    Floating in space, nostalgia tries to ground itself where avant-gardism tries to fly
  • mrkartofel04227has quoted3 years ago
    nostalgia assumes its full meaning’: the underlying implication is that if we were awash in some sense of the authentic, we would not have much occasion to look backward to find it – let alone yearn for a return
  • mrkartofel04227has quoted3 years ago
    a moment so obvious I did not take note of it; it just seeped its way into me and has never bled out
  • Саня Кособоковаhas quoted3 years ago
    Anyone who has ever tried to argue that they don’t have regrets – or that you shouldn’t have them, either – is effectively endorsing the same basic conception of identity, even if they’re trying to downplay the bad instead of emphasizing the good;
  • Саня Кособоковаhas quoted3 years ago
    the physical world is very much like the metaphorical tree, spreading and branching from a solid core that grows and strengthens with the overall breadth. We do need to be careful of taking this way of thinking too far.
  • Саня Кособоковаhas quoted3 years ago
    Nostalgia has some plainly essential functions to our identity, even if we only conceive of it as a restorative, but as the lady says, the difference between medicine and poison is dosage.
  • Саня Кособоковаhas quoted3 years ago
    This usage of nostalgia is rarely very specific: it can suggest that the target is anything from a sentimental patsy too easily seduced by saccharine stories or things that prop up their own ego, to someone who is generally naive or misunderstands history, to the kind of rock-ribbed reactionary who won’t rest until every pair of pants comes with suspender buttons by default.
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