What’s it called when you’re nostalgic for a time you didn’t live through, like teenagers feeling nostalgic and “looking back” on i.e. the 80s or 90s?

I was born in the 2000s, but somehow I feel a sort of longing to live during the 80s. I have watched a bunch of movies produced during that time, and I realise they may not be a totally realistic depiction of the time period, but for some reason I “miss” the 80s. I don’t mean the struggles of marginalised groups or the politics, but rather the feeling of “old school” and people socialising, the shows playing on TV during that time, the diners, the discotheques, the clubs, the music and fashion and hairstyles… there’s just something cozy about the 80s, how technology wasn’t super developed, how people were still discovering things. Don’t misunderstand me though, I’m glad about the technological advancements we have achieved today, and I realise my image of the 80s may be skewed since I literally didn’t exist during that time, lol.

What’s this feeling called? Has anybody else felt the same way about a time period that isn’t the 2020s?

  • @TheInsane42English
    1•9 months ago

    Sure but the 80s were when we knew as an entire nation that global warming was coming to wreck our shit.

    Then I’m curious which nation you are in that denied the issues in the 70s. The 1st UN climate conference was in Stockholm in 1972.

    Exxon had an entire team dedicated to energy transition. They had extensive documents proving global warming.

    In the capitalisting era, nothing was more important then making money, not even species survival in the (near) future was important enough to allow to rean a few cent less.

    And then they and other oil companies managed to punt the action, scrap their internal teams and bury their heads in the sand because of profits.

    Check, this.

    The head of every oil company should’ve been brought up in front of the fucking Hague for that shit. Too bad they’re already all dead.

    Nah, even the current ones can be brought to court, but not only the oil company execs, even governments are to blame. It would be a major improvement when something would be done, instead of still denying something is wrong.

    This is fine