What in your opinion is the source for nostalgic hallucination?
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Some people have a view that the past was somehow better. Specially, when all real data indicates the opposite! What is up with such mass hallucination? Why can’t people realize that nostalgia is a scape from reality in the longing for some form of idealized past period?
In the renaissance people were still being tortured and enslaved. In ancient Greece people were starving, being enslaved, suffering through war and awful diseases…etc! OK there are rare exception, but that is it…!
nostalgic mushrooms?
The grass always lloks greener on the other side. Here & now..reallity it hard. : )
Some people feel it was better because they were younger I suppose. We live in a society that has no respect for elders. (But its funny when you think about what generation started it, they’ve gotten old haha)
UMM, people all over the world are still starving, being enslaved, e.t.c. To answer your question though, people are fascinated by a glorious past, because it can be studied. There is no way to tell what is going on in the future so we have to look at the past. That and everything that we are experiencing now is directly linked to something that has happened in the past.
It is the glamor that Hollywood and some historians put on the past. For example instead of “live in the western united States” it would be “Live in the Wild Wild West.” Catch my drift?
I wouldn’t mind living in a simpler time without cellphones, ipods, computers, televisions, and the rest of the razz-a madazz. True that it was a more difficult time to live in Ancient Rome or Greece or Turkey or China or Japan…. but the simpleness of their social-skills were so much more real and fine. People needed people. Really needed people. Life was shorter but with way more quality of social awareness.
good memories last longer then bad ones unless the bad ones were really horrific – thus the past takes on a golden hue
Any radio tuned in to a “Classic Rock” station playing a “Two-For-Tuesday” block of “Grateful Dead…”
(and the deep, unexplored recesses of your glove compartment…there’s some old tabs back there you forgot about…)