Nostalgia is a surprisingly sturdy launch point into the future. Not only does it ground us mentally and physically when the landscape shifts or founders, it focuses us, with sensory immediacy, on what we most value – and, by extension, on what we want to reflect to the world. That’s where its transformative power lies.
Elizabeth Svoboda
“The bittersweet madeleine. It is a guilty pleasure and undergirds nationalist bombast, yet nostalgia for the past can help propel us into the future.”This Essay was originally published in Aeon. (Read: 12 minutes)
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