Emma’s Reviews > Culture Creep: Notes on the Pop Apocalypse – Sharp Cultural Criticism on Feminism, Social Media, and Cults > Status Update

"We must acknowledge nostalgia as a key emotional tool to maintain the status quo, a drive keeping us loyal to the past instead of the future. It tells us we are right to be dissatisfied with the present, but that the past is the refuge from out current troubles, rather than the source of them." (254-255).