Retro 80
I must have stepped into Dr. Brown's DeLoren, punched the accelerator, reached eighty-eight miles an hour, and instead of going back to the future, I ended up in the 1980s. There is no other explanation. I'm back in college, striving for my degree. I'm looking at my fellow students and they are wearing what we did 20 years ago. One of my favorite radio stations, 101.5 FM, The Point, is the best of the eighties. What's going on? Am I caught in the space time continuum? The music and fashions may have returned, however my physique and hair have not yet made their reappearance. "I haven't flipped my coins into the fountain of youth" as recording star, Martina McBride sings. I can't believe we are going to already relive the eighties...its all so, well, nostalgic. I have determined that's really what it's all about. We're all looking back, like the little old lady driving in front of me. We are driving forward by the rear view mirror. What I mean is...that with all the uncertainty out there...terrorists, anthrax, Iraq, unemployment, "W.", and a thousand other unknowns are kind of giving me an identity crisis...giving "US" an identity crisis. Things were easier back then...at least that's how I remembered them to be. I was cool in the
Nostalgia has a healing attribute of muting the negative of the past. Who doesn't remember the continuing saga of Star Wars and Indiana Jones? Back To the Future, The Terminator, and Alien? These movies were not trendsetting. We do all this because it brings back those warm and fuzzy thoughts of the past, better known as nostalgia. As Robert Palmer, the great 80s recording artist would say, it's totally irresistible! In my opinion, this is a good thing. Many of us will remember, when starting our computers, a wonderful C: appeared. We will even recruit those from younger generations to share our identity. The Gutenberg press was the catalyst to the Reformation era and the result was continuing wars fought throughout a devastated Europe for 30 years. Reflexive Nostalgia refers to an individual who will sentimentalize the past and yet censure some of those feelings with thoughts of the present. As I observe our society as a whole, we are polarized between liberal and conservative views with me, as a moderate, in the DMZ. More than by any other medium, religion and art included, fashion is the means whereby our perception and experience of large segments of our everyday world are constantly being recast.
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