Nostalgia is bad medicine, a nauseous opiate, an insult to your intelligence. Also a dangerous and unstable bargaining tool, because it's effects are shorter than spring fever.
so sayeth charlie, so practised by myself. gee, darn.
so sayeth charlie, so practised by myself. gee, darn.
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hadjischlomo:
Damn straight! you seem to be fairly aware. Nostalgia is not only empty, but it carries so much false, retrograde baggage. An opium; used cynically, in a pavlovian manner, often engineered so tightly that putting dorky nostalgia into a film or whatever elicits a calcuated, laugh-track like emotional response in X% of a given demographic. This has to be one of the key ingredients in so many Hollow-wood schmaltz recipies.
yert:
Hi friend - it's been a while 