I've been told that being nostalgic stops progress. But in the same breath I could've been told that those who don't know history are bound to repeat it. Which, if either, is true??
I personally love history (you all may have figured that out when I read the story of the Forrest Gump pencil in class today), so I tend to be on the pro-nostalgia side of the debate. Last year I got a 24/25 on an essay about how I'd prefer to live in the 1950's than today, for example. But I can't find any reason why believing the past was better would make the future worse.
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