The Nostalgia Will Eat Itself
   How our world of constant nostalgia is devaluing the very concept of
   nostalgia.
   The Nostalgia Will Eat Itself
   Nostalgia, in the right doses, can be a joy. Proust totally understood
   We are drowning in nostalgia today, and every time I think it can’t get
   Nostalgia, when over-indulged, really sucks, but it sucks these days in
   two very particular ways. First, nostalgia is a conversation killer.
   like this is a personal attack because their nostalgia has internalized
   There’s a second, and more insidious, way that nostalgia sucks. It’s a
   internet has perfected - overkill. The sheer amount of nostalgia in
   which we traffic has absolutely devalued nostalgia in general. Let’s
   That’s what the constant nostalgia cycle is doing for us online. I
   Tim Burton’s Batman, and I’m shocked by all the nostalgia I see for the
   omnipresent to me. Nostalgia works best when it’s a rare, when the
   living with that constant nostalgia has to become nothing more than
   Our obsession with nostalgia and anniversaries and living in the past
   it’s a direct reaction to the endlessly simmering nostalgia. We bring
   so modern audiences didn’t invent nostalgia, but we have perfected it.
   The Baby Boomers really honed nostalgia, fixating on Howdy Doody and
   state of nostalgia, often for things that happened less than a decade
   long time coming. This gives you a sense of how much nostalgia is
   Done right, done sparingly, nostalgia is a wonder. There’s an endorphin
   “It was myself.” Nostalgia, done right, is an understanding of the
   I don’t begrudge anyone their nostalgia, just as I don’t begrudge
   anyone their fetishes. But like fetishes, nostalgia works best when
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