Nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present. The name for this denial is Golden Age thinking - the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in - it's a flaw in the romantic imagination of those people who find it difficult to cope with the present.
Nostalgia is a seductive liar.
Do not say: How is it that former times were better than these? For it is not out of wisdom that you ask about this.
Hopes can be disappointed. Nostalgia is irrefutable.
Compared with that, Angie thinks, what is there for us in the present? “Nostalgia,” we are apt to label this phenomenon. It is the success of the invading plant, which seeks only to anchor itself in the past. Why move forward? Why move at all?