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Post by amyghost on Aug 28, 2018 11:55:46 GMT
'Nostalgia for the Nineties'. Jesus...we'll soon be to the point of experiencing Nostalgia for Two Hours Ago. Nostalgia goes in 20 year cycles. In the 70's it was nostalgia for the 50's: Happy Days. In the 80's it was the 60's: T he Wonder Years. In the 90's it was the 70's: That 70's Show. In the 00's it was the 80's: Freaks & Geeks.
Now it's the 90's turn! Fresh Off the Boat
LOL, I know, I know. But in the late Sixties/early Seventies we were jonesing on the Twenties, Thirties and Forties. Nostalgia seemed to have bigger waves back then. It seemed as if the 'twenty year' thing really took off in the mid-Seventies with the huge success of American Graffiti, and then the telly popularity of Happy Days. Between them, they pretty single-handedly kickstarted the Fifties craze. Maybe it's partially getting older. Since the Nineties seem pretty recent history to people my age, it just feels a little bizarre to witness others viewing it as some prehistoric time period. And it may just be me, but I have to agree with Gore Vidal's 'United States of Amnesia' notion: American's collective memory span really does appear to be getting shorter and shorter. |
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