12/17/2022 0 Comments Looking good real war says nostalgiaIt’s also worth remembering that rampant abuse of drugs and steroids during the wrestling boom shortened the lives of many of the sport’s top stars. Sure it’s fun to remember when Hulk Hogan, King Kong Bundy, Macho Man and the Junkyard Dog were the kings of professional wrestling. People actually used to believe foolish crap like that.) I’m sure anybody who lived through the gang wars that flourished alongside crack sales for control of the lucrative market for illegal drugs isn’t nostalgic about it. Reaganomics? Apartheid in South Africa? The spread of HIV around the world, and the unreasonable and foolish fear it caused? (Don’t sit on a public toilet – you might get AIDS. The Iran-Contra Affair? Everybody involved has tried their best to forget it. Anybody want to relive nuclear arms proliferation? I doubt it. Looking back at the 1980’s a little more objectively, there were plenty of things no one would be nostalgic for. The trick of memory is that when you view things through the eyes of nostalgia, you don’t always remember the negative aspects of an era. It was for me an expansion beyond the limited worldview of the place I grew up in that I wholeheartedly embraced, and I can be as nostalgic as anybody about that area – I still have the records and tapes and even the means to play them. Rap music was a positive expression of a vibrant culture that was just beginning to take the world by storm. Through rose colored glasses everything seems better back then. If you grew up in the 1980’s you can hear one of these songs and it can transport you back to the past like a time machine. No strategy guides required.” It’s the same kind of thinking that can be found in hip-hop nostalgia as well. Games that were easy to learn but difficult to master. It’s easy to fall into the trap of thinking “Things were better back then. The proliferation of home consoles and handhelds has made the idea of a single game that takes up that much retail space an antiquated notion that is now celebrated in private collections and public conventions. If I play a Galaga machine at Dave & Busters, it takes me back to those days growing up when you’d see a coin-operated video game everywhere. It happens the first time you see some relic of your childhood and think “Boy do I miss those days.” As a man born in the 1970’s who grew up in the 1980’s, my flashpoints have always been hip-hop, pro wrestling and video games. You’re not even aware of it swimming in your bloodstream, infecting your brain cells, taking over your body until it’s already too late. Nostalgia creeps up on you when you’re not looking. If you survive all of the calamities of the world – disease, war, fire, earthquake, tsunami, famine, tornado, hurricane – if you simply manage to get a year older you get ever closer to fighting the most familiar enemy of aging – NOSTALGIA. It stalks you with every passing week, month and year of the calendar. It creeps up on you when you’re not looking.
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