Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Nostalgia is not what it used to be.
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Nostalgia is a file that removes the rough edges from the good old days.
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
You can embrace nostalgia and history and tradition at the same time - it has to progress or it can't survive.
What we see is what they're trying to sell us. It's not true nostalgic as much as it is repeating old material because it's less expensive than new material.
When I say I hate nostalgia, I hate things set in the recent past where everything is shiny and new.
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.