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‘The twentieth century began with utopia and ended with nostalgia. The twenty-first century is not characterized by the search for newness, but by the proliferation of nostalgias,’ wrote the Russian-American philologist Svetlana Boym, who saw nostalgia as a way of escaping the strictures of rationally ordered time. She contrasted two types. One, which is healthy, she called ‘reflective’ nostalgia: it looks at individual, often ironic stories from the past, tries to tease out the difference between the past and present to formulate the future. The other, harmful type she called ‘restorative’ nostalgia. This strives to rebuild lost homelands with ‘paranoiac determination’, thinks of itself as ‘truth and tradition’, obsesses over grand symbols and ‘relinquish[es] critical thinking for emotional bonding … Unreflective nostalgia can breed monsters.’
This Is Not Propaganda
Peter Pomerantsev
A fire that started mid afternoon moved about 24km (14 miles) within four or five hours as the wind changed direction.
“It put up a column, punching into the atmosphere 14km (8 miles) high.
“These columns are generating their own weather.
“There's lightning coming out of these columns.
Australia Bushfires: Thousands Trapped in Ring of Fire After Ignoring Warnings to Flee | World | News | Express.co.uk
Brian Mcgleenon
Their abusive behavior also continued outside of their substance abuse, even if it was in more covert and subtle ways.
Becoming the Narcissist's Nightmare
Shahida Arabi
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