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Is my nostalgia organic or was it manufactured by people selling products?
Posted on 11/4/21 at 10:56 am
Posted on 11/4/21 at 10:56 am
Music, toys, cars. All of these take me back to different past times that I am nostalgic for.
But they are all products. They trigger feelings in me but they really only existed to be sold for money. Again and again.
Or maybe using these items as a trigger for nostalgia is part of the unspoken benefit I received from the initial purchase?
There is nostalgia not involving consumerism, but on some level it seems interwoven.
But they are all products. They trigger feelings in me but they really only existed to be sold for money. Again and again.
Or maybe using these items as a trigger for nostalgia is part of the unspoken benefit I received from the initial purchase?
There is nostalgia not involving consumerism, but on some level it seems interwoven.
This post was edited on 11/4/21 at 10:58 am
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Posted on 11/4/21 at 10:57 am to weagle99
What this country needs is a good nickel cigar!
Posted on 11/4/21 at 10:58 am to weagle99
Posted on 11/4/21 at 10:58 am to weagle99
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Is my nostalgia organic or was it manufactured by people selling products?
Posted on 11/4/21 at 10:59 am to weagle99
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Is my nostalgia organic or was it manufactured by people selling products?
Both
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:00 am to weagle99
Organic Nostalgia is all bunk. It is mostly a ripoff and is grown in a field right next to regular nostalgia.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:01 am to weagle99
My nostalgia comes with the memories I made while owning these products. Hearing a certain song or seeing a certain toy really brings me back to a specific time and place typically. I didn't have a typical childhood, so I too suffer from nostalgia when I see these things fromy childhood.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:06 am to weagle99
It's both. I'm 41, but can still remember the Toy's R' Us theme song. Sure it's selling me something, but there are great memories there. Every birthday, my parents would give my brother and I a $50-$100 shopping spree.
That was a lot of money to younger me and I struggled figuring out what Ninja Turtle, or GI Joe to buy. Should I get a new Nintendo Game? Maybe a new basketball. That time spent running through that store was pure happiness.
Now my son just gets whatever the frick he wants that we order from Amazon. It's not the same.
That was a lot of money to younger me and I struggled figuring out what Ninja Turtle, or GI Joe to buy. Should I get a new Nintendo Game? Maybe a new basketball. That time spent running through that store was pure happiness.
Now my son just gets whatever the frick he wants that we order from Amazon. It's not the same.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:10 am to weagle99
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:11 am to weagle99
Probably some of both, tbh.
Some of it was genuinely good.
Some of it was good only because you were a kid.
Some of it was fueled by 2020-2021 having far fewer new movies and tv seasons than normal, forcing people to go back and watch older stuff.
Some of it is certainly marketing to try to milk money out of old IP rather than risk money making new IP.
Some of it was genuinely good.
Some of it was good only because you were a kid.
Some of it was fueled by 2020-2021 having far fewer new movies and tv seasons than normal, forcing people to go back and watch older stuff.
Some of it is certainly marketing to try to milk money out of old IP rather than risk money making new IP.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:12 am to HuskyPanda
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Now my son just gets whatever the frick he wants that we order from Amazon. It's not the same.
“I’m disappointed that my son didn’t grow up to be a commodity fetishist.”
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:55 am to weagle99
It's programming(as in brainwashing). I cut the chord back in the VHS days. When I hear a commercial now, it's like nails on a chalkboard(the same thing happens when I hear pretty much any daytime talk show).
But I can get on youtube and watch commercials that haven't aired in 30 or 40 years and still know them by heart...and enjoy seeing them.
That has to be some kind of subliminal shite or something. Only halfway kidding.
But I can get on youtube and watch commercials that haven't aired in 30 or 40 years and still know them by heart...and enjoy seeing them.
That has to be some kind of subliminal shite or something. Only halfway kidding.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 11:59 am to weagle99
Hard to say. Nostalgia is a strange emotion. Little things can evoke memories.
I get a strong longing for Pop Rouge. Does anyone here rmemeber it? It doesn't exist anymore. I know someone tried to revive a similar recipe in a pinkish soda, and it tastes similar, but it just isn't the same. Barqs red creme comes close... but Pop Rouge soda for me evokes memories of running around down in Houma, barefoot or in flipflops and dirty legs, with my cousins, outside my mawmaws house, getting in minor trouble and thinking we were the baddest of bada$$e$. Just... being 10. idk
I get a strong longing for Pop Rouge. Does anyone here rmemeber it? It doesn't exist anymore. I know someone tried to revive a similar recipe in a pinkish soda, and it tastes similar, but it just isn't the same. Barqs red creme comes close... but Pop Rouge soda for me evokes memories of running around down in Houma, barefoot or in flipflops and dirty legs, with my cousins, outside my mawmaws house, getting in minor trouble and thinking we were the baddest of bada$$e$. Just... being 10. idk
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:05 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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“I’m disappointed that my son didn’t grow up to be a commodity fetishist.”
Ah frick off with this Marxist bullshite.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:06 pm to weagle99
what are you getting at? That we don't actually have good memories because we bought stuff?
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:18 pm to weagle99
My working theory is that the comfort nostalgia brings is a result of suppressing man’s fear of the unknown.
Were times better “back then?” Maybe, maybe not. But we know how the story ended, and everything turns out ok.
For example, in the 70s, people lived in constant fear of Russian nukes. Now they pine for the 70s because they know it didn’t happen.
Today, everything is scary because we just don’t know. Will our economy collapse? Will we be rounded up into camps? Will I be able to retire? Will my country be unrecognizable in 10 years with the mass influx of third worlders? Nobody knows, and that’s that scary part.
Were times better “back then?” Maybe, maybe not. But we know how the story ended, and everything turns out ok.
For example, in the 70s, people lived in constant fear of Russian nukes. Now they pine for the 70s because they know it didn’t happen.
Today, everything is scary because we just don’t know. Will our economy collapse? Will we be rounded up into camps? Will I be able to retire? Will my country be unrecognizable in 10 years with the mass influx of third worlders? Nobody knows, and that’s that scary part.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:19 pm to weagle99
Both?
With that said, do they sell Icees anywhere in which the cups are of football teams?
I used to love Icees and the cups was always baseball teams.
With that said, do they sell Icees anywhere in which the cups are of football teams?
I used to love Icees and the cups was always baseball teams.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:20 pm to weagle99
Your nostalgia is somewhat organic, but the fact that millennials and Gen X are becoming so obsessed with it are due to factors outside of your control happening right now.
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:28 pm to Boring
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My working theory is that the comfort nostalgia brings is a result of suppressing man’s fear of the unknown.
I don't disagree at all. But at the same time, anyone that lived through the 70s and 80s saw a country that doesn't exist anymore. As crazy as the hair, fashion, etc might have been, each decade had an identity of it's own and there was still a strong connection to the past that doesn't seem to be there anymore.
Whether it's kids playing outside, watching things like Bugs Bunny and the Three Stooges that your parents and maybe even grandparents had watched when they were kids, or even something as trivial as how society looks at smoking now, when you grew up seeing cigarette machines everywhere you went and a book of matches and an ashtray were on every table.
It just doesn't seem like there are as many of those things that used to go from one generation to the next as there used to be.
This post was edited on 11/4/21 at 12:29 pm
Posted on 11/4/21 at 12:37 pm to DaleGribble
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how society looks at smoking now, when you grew up seeing cigarette machines everywhere you went and a book of matches and an ashtray were on every table.
You're right. WE NEED CIGARETTE MACHINES IN THE SCHOOLS!
Kids these days don't appreciate their past and if we can get them smoking again, I think all will go back to normal.
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