Nostalgia for the unborn

[Jason Tanz]

On Fri, 11 Jul 1997, Paul DiFilippo wrote:

> 
> 
> Ben Greenburg's extrapolation of a nostalgia for things/events
> that have not yet come to pass actually already exists, in one
> certain form.  It's the "Yesterday's Tomorrows" sensation:
> all of us raised on SF (circa 1940-1965) longing for our personal
> rocket belts and food pills.
> 

I know someone already mentioned nostalgia before the event as analog to
the V-2 rocket, heard before felt.  In Pointsman terminology, I think we
can also think of it as fascination for the response without the stimulus.
Nostalgia itself is a desired end, so much so that there doesn't need to
be any worthy stimulus to provoke it.

And by the way, when I think '70s, I think Stevie Wonder.  God bless that
man.