Nostalgia was 70's crap

[Ben Greenberg]

If I may delurk for a moment...

Why stop at the exact moment we're living in right now. Why not nostalgia for
events that haven't occured yet. It disappears up its own aperture and comes
right out the other end. Kinda like having a rocket land on your head and then
you hear it.

And on a related note: If nostalgia is a "return" and we have a nostalgia for
the future or the present for that matter, then would we be eternally returning? 


Ben
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Subject: RE: 70s crap
From:    "Sherwood; Harrison" <hsherwood at btg.com> at Internet
Date:    7/10/97  1:25 PM


2) I'm pretty sure the
"nostalgia-for-nostalgia-for-nostalgia-for-nostalgia" merry-go-round has
twirled enough times that finding irony in it is hopelessly passé. ;-)
I'm waiting for the moment when the nostalgia-cycle gets so tight that
it disappears up its own fundamental aperture, achieving (again trying
to pull us back toward relevancy, here) a cultural heat-death, where we
feel a constant nostalgia for the exact moment we're living in right
now.

(And _I_ want points on the merchandising!)


Harrison