HOw many people here have done this with old t.v. shows?

I watch old, even, by TV standards, ancient shows; nearly all black and white, almost exclusively, though I make exceptions.

For me, familiarity breeds not contempt, but affection.

All this aside, I keep track of what's going on in the world; not in great detail, but I do; and I'm by no means out of it. What I'm referring to in response to the OP has more to do with aesthetics than personal psychology, though that's unavoidable, I suppose.

The so-called Good Old Days really weren't that good, for most of humanity especially, but a lot of this has to one's nationality, race, and what time period seems the most idyllic. What makes earlier times more attractive to me is their art, whether music, painting, literature or architecture (and that's just for starters), not how people lived, who was exploited, and by whom. I know a good deal about this, and I abhor cruelty.

My tastes are for me very much in the here and now. I have my nostalgic and sentimental moments, but I am not driven by them to make alternate fantasy worlds of kings and princes, dungeons and dragons, knights and castles,--take your pick--this isn't for me, though for those who choose to indulge in such imaginings I have no ill feelings toward them. Nor am I inclined to moralize about such things.

I'd love to hear what other have to say on this topic, and I hope that it's polite, and what follows makes us feel better about who we are and what we do with the time available to us.