Or childhood and the extended transition to adulthood have gotten easier?
Interesting question (damn, I did it again!)So is nostalgia good now because life has gotten worse?
Or childhood and the extended transition to adulthood have gotten easier?
speaking of this we went out for breakfast over the weekend and I shit you not every kid between 2-10 in the place had a mobile screen in front of them as they waited for/ate food
was kind of stunning
Interesting question (damn, I did it again!)
A longing for an idealized past is not at all a new thing, and we regularly see in literature from antiquity to the enlightenment romanticized versions of this kind of nostalgia in common tropes like The Golden Age, Arcadia, Utopia.
But I don't think that "nostalgia is good now" just that we needed a word to describe a sentimental relationship to the past and since the nineteenth century (? Idk?) that word was useful enough. We already have in English melancholy and wistfulness and yearning and remorse and a million other words for an unhappy reflection on the past.
But idk!
Interesting. My first thought in response to this was to "memorabilia" but according to the OED that didn't apply to objects until the middle of the nineteenth century -- and specifically in an American contextmy kneejerk reaction is that nostalgia was taken up primarily as a way to express one's relationship to commodities and dropped the painful connotation as a result
all of the longing none of the pain
my kneejerk reaction is that nostalgia was taken up primarily as a way to express one's relationship to commodities and dropped the painful connotation as a result
all of the longing none of the pain
We make ours color or deliberately sit outside or in the back room away from people so they can run around like psychos and get their energy out. As a childless patron hoping to enjoy a peaceful meal or the chance at conversation, I assure you, you should be thankful for all those parents that morning.
I guess the surprise was that the SCREEN has basically defacto replaced a host of other transitional objects for kids
but yeah kids do be making noise
Kinda surprised that 50 was the surprise guest and not Ice Cube or another West Coast rapper.