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Why we romanticize eras we never experienced

I keep buying vintage clothes from decades I never lived through and I think I'm trying to escape my own time but I don't know where I'm trying to go.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Nostalgia for unlived pasts reveals dissatisfaction with present reality.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Nostalgia — its function and its limits?”

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