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Retro
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Now, this girl? Classic. Legendary. Badass. She’s retro, kitsch, and completely owning it. You think she’s just some dude’s idea of sexy? She’s not his fantasy; she’s our symbol. We’re taking her back, bitch!
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The danger of restorative nostalgia lies in its belief that the mutilated 'wholeness' of the body politic can be repaired. But the reflective nostalgic understands deep down that loss is irrecoverable: Time wounds all wholes. To exist in Time is to suffer through an endless exile, a successive severing from those precious few moments of feeling at home in the world. In pop terms, Morrissey is the supreme poet of reflective nostalgia.
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― Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
― Retromania: Pop Culture's Addiction to Its Own Past
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