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Really, each era has its own false nostalgia. We all put a picket fence up around something. For my generation it was the '50s, and for other generations it will be something else. Change is scary for everyone, as is complexity, contradiction, and an uncertain future.

I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing.

Most childhoods are full of anxiety, but that tends to get smoothed over, so you have a sense of nostalgia.

Nostalgia is when you want things to stay the same. I know so many people staying in the same place.

I don't have a great nostalgia for the past.

I don't like nostalgia unless it's mine.

I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.

I've become convinced that nostalgia is a fundamentally unhealthy modality. When you see it, it's usually attached to something else that's really, seriously bad. I don't traffic in nostalgia. We're becoming a global culture.

When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.