Are we too nostalgic?
As I'm sure you're all aware, I have an allergy to grumpy old farts claiming that the world is going to hell, so I wasn't likely to have a positive reaction to this particularly weird argument from Simon Reynolds that things were better in the 60s, man, because they were, uh, not as nostalgic as people are now. Yes, folks, Reynolds is nostalgic for a time when people weren't, he claims, as nostalgic. I combed the article for any indication that Reynolds is aware of the irony here, but alas, he's too far up the ass of the good ol' days when they weren't longing for the good ol' days that he didn't realize what's he's doing here.
Aug 11, 2011