Nostalgia is always false

Ah the good old days. Remember how good they were? Not like now.

Nostalgia is always a lie because it underplays the complexity of a previous time and ignores all the difficult elements of it. In addition, it presents the modern day as solely bad, a fallen age. The reality is always more complex than this. Everything-is-a-Story and an idealised past is no exception.

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