Nostalgia was 70's crap

[Ben Greenberg]

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Subject: RE: Nostalgia was 70's crap
From:    "Sherwood; Harrison" <hsherwood at btg.com> at Internet
Date:    7/10/97  4:48 PM

The insight sent me off into a reverie about culture-death and the cycle
of nostalgia. I mean, shit, maybe it's already happened. Maybe when that
nostalgia-flywheel got spinning, that was It: End of Discussion. It gets
increasingly hard for _me_ to see a way out of it: Once a culture starts
feeding on its own detritus and finding the fare delicious, is it
possible once again to return to a state of vigorous growth and
originality? Can you get the snake's tail out of its mouth?


Hey man, You can check out anytime you want but you can never leave.

(So it returns again, but don't worry the universe will start collapsing soon.)

Ben