The most fascinating flavor of this is Christmas, since it's now second- or third-order nostalgia. Very few people have direct memories of riding in an open sleigh, but many will get misty at childhood memories of hearing nostalgic songs about it.
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The natural end point of this will be a nostalgia with no referent, cultural works about one's sadness over having to exchange the more innocent nostalgia of youth for the darker feelings of nostalgia that come with adulthood, after one has experienced real loss.
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I miss Twitter when people got my jokes!
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Even nostalgia isn't what it used to be!
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"Nostalgia ain't what it used to be" - Niels Bohr
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So you’re saying you’re nostalgic for those days?
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We clipped the wings of inverters, by allowing laws to take away there rights, to have what they invented or to even get funding to invent with.
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