"The Negative Effects Of Toxic Nostalgia - SOME MORE NEWS"

[kane_magus]

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"Hi. You may think things were better in the '80s or '90s – when things weren't so gosh darned political – but what you're forgetting is that you were 12. Nostalgia, while fine in small doses, is also readily used as propaganda for fascists."

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Fuck you, Cody. Vic Fontaine was one of the best things about Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

And... almost literally halfway into the video, the political stuff started. Fucking Ben Shapiro is on my computer screen now, or was before I switched tabs to write this paragraph and also add the "middle-finger-worthy" tag to this post. I am already nostalgic for the first half of this video where Cody was talking about Star Trek and Star Wars and in which Ben Shapiro was not involved in any way whatsoever. I'm guessing that Cody will probably also make a joke at the end of this video about being nostalgic for the beginning of this video. We'll see.

(Pre-post edit, about twenty minutes later) And, there it is, the joke about being nostalgic for the earlier parts of the video. It wasn't quite at the end, but more like three-quarters of the way through. I will never be nostalgic for Warmbo, though. Thankfully, Warmbo wasn't really in this video, except as a brief reference to the movie (in which, as Cody pointed out, the puppet was there, but it wasn't being called Warmbo yet, i.e. one of the beforetimes for which I am nostalgic). (/pre-post edit) (Pre-post edit 2) And again, at the very ass-end of the video, in the after-credits part, when Cody picked up the inert puppet and made a nightmare-inducing noise with his mouth. (/pre-post edit 2)

Okay, so I'm not necessarily nostalgic for 2014 or anything, but I will say that the era before Dumbshit Jackass Trump came down that golden escalator was literally, objectively better than the era we live in now. Pretty much all I have been doing for the past decade or so now is looking forward to the era to come, after Dumbfuck Jizzstain Trump is finally dead and gone, which will probably start in, like, 2027 or something, hopefully, if not sooner, even more hopefully. It won't be better than what we had pre-2015, but it will be... maybe, probably... less horrendous than what we have now, at the very least.

(EDIT) And yes, as someone in the comments under the video mentioned, what MAGAts are experiencing is not nostalgia, but a uniquely United Statesian form of the Welsh hiraeth, which, roughly translated, means "homesickness for a place that never was." MAGA wants to return to "good old days" that were never actually good. Hiraeth is somewhat similar to the German Weltschmerz, which is a sort of depression or apathy that comes about as a result of trying to compare what the world actually is to what the world could have been (e.g. "can you imagine how much better the world would be right now if Trump had never come down that goddamned golden escalator and entered presidential politics?") (/EDIT) (EDIT 2) Apparently, the English equivalent of hiraeth is anemoia, which was made up in 2012 by some American guy who seems to have never heard the word hiraeth, considering that said American guy's project "aims to come up with new words for emotions that currently lack words." Or fauxstalgia. You know what? I'm going to stick with hiraeth, thanks. (/EDIT 2)