history poll: what decades do you think people from like the 18th century backward had nostalgia for the way we fetishize the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s?
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like nobody in 1600 looked back on the (15)90s and thought "remember those plagues? good times..."
but there must have been some agreed-upon banger decades at the time every now and then
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Responses:
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bummer that you started at the 18th century,
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crash davis 😺
May 2, 19:22
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Dickens wrote (mockingly) about Georgian nostalgia in the Victorian era. -- nm
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mafic
May 2, 19:08
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Whatever pissed off their parents. -- nm
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con_carne
May 2, 18:49
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For most of the last 2,000 years, people idolized and aspired to ancient Rome (even today) but it’s not the same as the nostalgia you mention. -- nm
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Mop🧹
May 2, 18:48
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"Bloody 'ell, there's a Surströmming tavern at every crossroads nowadays." -- nm*
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1070s Britain
May 2, 18:31
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US Centennial prompted a lot of county histories and early settler bios. -- nm
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Max
May 2, 18:28
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I expect if there was big social change, there’d be a bunch of people who were nostalgic for it.
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Roger More
May 2, 18:15
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mid-1800's UK was on a huge Gothic Revival kick. -- nm
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Peglegpete
May 2, 17:55
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None, because the state of culture of the time was decidedly impermanent so there was little institutional memory that would allow for nostalgia -- (edited)
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znufrii
May 2, 17:33
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No because they didn't have Def Leppard and Bon Jovi. -- nm
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David
May 2, 17:29
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without TV, radio, internet most would be looking back and saying "remember that great crop in 1591, man my belly was full" -- nm
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Beaker 🍻
May 2, 17:28
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