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Nostalgia exerts a strong allure, and extracts a steep price – Alan Jay Levinovitz | Aeon Essays
‘The good old days’ is a virulent falsehood that infects those whose defences have been weakened by fear and insecurity. Make the world great again!’ thunder the prophets, religious and secular alike, who know our need for mythic comfort in the face of unjust reality. And so, with a paradoxical mix of pride and self-loathing, humanity tells the same story again and again, about the fallen present and a potential return to paradise past – to Hesiod’s idyllic golden age...
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