Nostalgia is an all-consuming force these days. Mustaches. Vinyl. Our favorite TV and movie characters sprawled on that brown striped couch everyone had in their knotty pine basement. And don’t get me started on the reboots. If nostalgia was a fire, we would be fully involved.

It’s powerful, this tool, and our craving for it plays directly into our discomfort with the breakneck pace of change. It’s human nature in a world of attention spans hijacked by TikTok to long for simpler, slower times. It makes sense for us oldies who experienced a different time to yearn for it.

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