Olivia Young’s Reviews > The Future of Nostalgia > Status Update

Nostalgia goes beyond individual psychology. At first glance, nostalgia is a longing for a place, but actually it is a yearning for a different time—the time of our childhood, the slower rhythms of our dreams. Nostalgia is a rebellion against the modern idea of time…The nostalgic desire to obliterate history…refusing to surrender to the irreversibility of time that plagues the human condition.