2007-02-21 22:47:03 · 24 answers · asked by Silkie1 4 in Education & Reference ➔ Trivia
Nostalgia, hmmmm It springs from the heart rather than the mind, and confines itself to living memory. Once there was a time to set aside childish things, to shut them away in the box of memory and get on with life's journey.
But you know in this day and age, childish things are taken with us into the adult life, and are having an impact, ie playstation, take that, they are no longer a reserve of the child.
There is no sunset or sunrise to separate our todays from history's yesterdays - There are no checkpoints to mark the frontier between the past and the almost present.
The dust has yet to settle on the events; the detail has not been forgotten and so the remembering of it is not accompanied by the joyful rush of rediscovery . . . Not yet, anyway
well thats my two pence worth
2007-02-21 23:23:28 · answer #1 · answered by Nike 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
People still crave the past, but not so much, as they are aware of the wars, deseases, strict dads, lack of loose women, non-internet-having-boredom and the like that used to prevail - but wait until we run out of oil & natural gas and see what nostalgia there will be then ...
I found this interesting too: Ostalgie = looking back by East Germans (Ost Deutsche) to the good times & things they used to have
2007-02-21 23:01:55 · answer #2 · answered by Wise Kai 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because culture has gone to the dogs and it would need a revolution to change it and bring it back to true talent. I suggest everyone sit down and write up a blue print for bringing down modern media mongrels and really put their minds to the art of the aesthetic. In the old days only the most talented, in whatever field, were accepted by the public, these were the days before reality TV came along.
Modern Hollywood has already lost its romantic slant to text book psychology as endorsed by Oprah Winfrey and her lot. In the time of Shakespeare, a man or woman loved only one partner, and if that relationship failed their lives were doomed, and hence 'tragedy'. Now if one relationship fails, for the sake of hygiene and mental health people are encouraged to drop the meaningfulness of their past romances and get a new 'mate' No wonder we have Beyonce Noels polluting our airwaves on the radio with 'box to the left' type of song's.
2007-02-21 23:01:16 · answer #3 · answered by Young Lass 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the Beatles are no longer here. Elvis is gone. Roy Orbison is gone. Beach boys etc etc etc. The music today is not going to be remembered in 2 years never mind 50. Look at the stones..they are old..the past...and still pack in the crowds. What band today will do this in 2057. This is all about nostalga as people relate to these things.
2007-02-21 23:31:13 · answer #4 · answered by Tiger Beer 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with you,nostalgias not like it were when I was a lad,we had proper nostalgia then!
2007-02-26 07:26:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because the recent past will have not left anything for us to be nostalgic about. Most feelings of nostaligia are based on 'Ah only if it were like when I was a kid' and do you remember how good such as such was.
Who on earth will be saying that in a generation from now. Not many but then again maybe someone will be nostalgic about drugs and muggings and shootings.........so on and so on!
2007-02-21 23:00:41 · answer #6 · answered by moi 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
LOL Nostalgic for nostalgia?
2007-02-21 22:50:18 · answer #7 · answered by J D 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Nearly every important thing that has happened to everyone in the last 25 years has been recorded and reviewed in some fashion or another. Video leaves less to be nostalgic about than memory.
2007-02-26 17:40:28 · answer #8 · answered by jimfixer 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Times change
2007-02-21 22:49:40 · answer #9 · answered by don't stop the music ♪ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hahahaha!! Well it never is of course, with each generation nostalgia is less nostalgic.
Cool question :-)
2007-02-21 22:57:57 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋