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Why People Can Feel Nostalgic For Things They Didn’t Experience

IDEAS Posted: July 20, 2020 12:27 pm

The politics of nostalgia doesn’t capitalise on people’s memories of particular past events they might have experienced. Instead, it makes use of propaganda about the way things were, in order to provide people with the right episodic materials to conjure up imaginations of possible scenarios that most likely never happened. – Aeon

IDEAS Published: 07.20.20

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