Opinion | Relentless Nostalgia Is Numbing Our Brains - The New York Times - 0 views
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On advertising’s biggest day, I longed for anything that would propel our popular culture or even create a new catch phrase rather than tepid nostalgia recycling random celebrities.
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“Hollywood’s dependence on old intellectual property has been a source of hand-wringing for at least the past two decades.”
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Our internet experience is suffused with unearned and soulless nostalgia, disconnected from any original source of true feeling. Over a decade ago, BuzzFeed realized it was easy to make cheap nostalgia go viral and introduced a section “geared to bringing you back in time.”
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