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"Autoritarismul apelează pur și simplu la oameni care nu pot tolera complexitatea: nu e absolut nimic intrinsec 'de stânga' sau 'de dreapta' în legătură cu acest instinct.

Restorative nostalgics don’t just look at old photographs and piece together family stories… They do not merely want to contemplate or learn from the past. They want, as Boym puts it, to “rebuild the lost home and patch up the memory gaps.”

They don’t acknowledge that the past might have had its drawbacks. They want the cartoon version of history, and more importantly, they want to live in it, right now.