"There's a false dichotomy being set up, between 'nostalgia' and 'modernisation'. Nostalgia is the yearning for the loss of an idealised world, whereas modernisation is the grim reality we are faced with, whether we like it or not." This was actually written about the Royal Mail, but it's true of a lot of things.
Not sure I agree with this, my blog is mostly nostalgic about the past I lived in but it's nostalgia for the way things really were. Obviously you can't help but put a little rosy glow on things but I don't think by being nostalgic about something you automatically idealise it. Doesn't nostalgia actually mean "homesickness"? Missing something that's gone?
Or have I missed the point? Wouldn't be the first time.
Is it nostalgia when things remind you of how vulnerable and dorky you were when you were younger, and then you realize Future You will be thinking exactly the same thing 20 years from now?
Or is that just a giant vicious circle mindfuck?
This is why I cling to guns and religion in addition to nostalgia.
*not really
I feel like a guy named Roy Mayall writing about the Royal Mail is probably some sort of trick.
I'm nostalgic for the future.
I miss earlier this morning. It was a sunnier happier time.
how do you yearn for the loss of something?
Dogs always seem to know.
I try really hard to be nostalgic about the present, and surprisingly, I'm often successful.