i'm have nostalgia for the America i grew up in...I am watching an old episode of “Lost In Space” right now. Next up is “Star Trek”.
I think about all that we have lost. We were once a country with shared values, a proud history, and a strong economy. I don’t live in the country my parents lived in. My country is a dim place, a shadow of what it once was. I guess I’m nostalgic.
I was just remembering the good ‘ol days...when Clinton was in the White House.
Now I can see old places by satellite. They put a major throughfare through my old neighborhood.
Andy Griffith
The Waltons
Little House On The Prairie
Gun Smoke
People looking back to a better time in America
I wish I were living in 1929—before political correctness, parking meters, AIDS, the Nanny State, the Kennedys, CAFE, Governor Moonbeam, abortion on demand, “Gay Pride” parades, speed bumps, Obamacare, John McCain, “praise” music, the EPA and Coach Lane Kiffin.
Nostalgia is warm and friendly .. very satisfying .. and addictive.
Star Trek is now on. They have beamed down to Cestus 3 and it has been destroyed. It is one of the better episodes if I remember right.
Guess what? A guy in a red shirt has already been killed.
i'm have nostalgia for the America i grew up in...Reboots aren't about "nostalgia". They are about plundering the past and establishing a new future (and new copyright). Heard last night that the Spider-Man franchise may make Mary Jane (Peter Parker's love interest) a man. Y'know, to make it contemporary.
All of the great sports stadiums of the past have been torn asunder by dictate of the leagues.
The sooner the suits can make you break with the past, the sooner they can get you to accept the new future they are trying to sell you.
Once upon a time, America's culture of rock and roll, cars, hamburgers, and blue jeans was dream for those living in the Soviet bloc and elsewhere. Such contraband was banned.
Now our cars are greenie weenie mobiles. Roadtrips and drive-ins are frowned upon. Hamburgers are "bad for you" (by dictate of the Queen). Rock and roll in the media no longer exists (replaced by nudisco, rap, and twee sensitive males with keyboard synths). Hollywood has sold out America (movies like Captain America are called The First Avenger in foreign territories, Superman no longer stands up for The American Way, etc.).
That longing for the past, called "nostalgia" sometimes manifests from a longing for the way things were. Not because everything was better then, but because what replaced it is worse in many ways.
But those who dig into past relics aren't "nostalgic" for experiences they never had. Sometimes listening to old music is just that. Seeking out something other than the suits are pushing today.
Is it nostalgia to listen to "classical" music? Bebop jazz?
Then why is it considered nostalgic to listen to twist records?