In Defense of Nostalgia
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Nostalgia seems to be taking a beating lately, so I'd like to mount a defense for it. I will argue that some ages were better than others, and that not only is nostalgia not misplaced, but that a healthy dose of it, even if you already think the world is a grand place, is the key to making things even better.
Nostalgia
Dan Spock - in Defense of Nostalgia, PDF, Nostalgia
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Does this game give you heavy hits of nostalgia too? : r/HonkaiStarRail
Nostalgia - Roblox
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The Last Hero of Nostalgaia on Steam
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In Defense of Communism: More than 40% of Ukrainians express nostalgia for the Soviet Union (New Survey)
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Ryan Sugrue on X: Nostalgia hits different during quarantine. If you never played bloons tower defense during computer class in elementary/middle school, you had no childhood #designthinkingbc (7♦️) / X
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In Defense of Nostalgia
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In Defense of Nostalgia
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In Defense of Nostalgia - In These Times
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Nostalgia - Wikipedia
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In Defense of Nostalgia: Why Game Boys Are Still Superior to Modern Te
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Opinion In Defense of Nostalgia - The New York Times
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PDF) Make America Great Again: From Neoliberalism to Nihilistic Nostalgia in Superior Donuts and Good People.