Progressive Nostalgia

Our culture seems to be thriving on nostalgia, as of late. Simple evidence can be found everywhere, especially in the media I cover here at Cesaria. Movies, television, music, and games seem to be hearkening back to a, conceivably, better day. Why exactly is that? Frankly, I don’t know. Is it to capitalize on the trends of our youth, as the recent 80’s franchise film revivals seem to imply? If that is so, then it’s a purely lazy way to make a quick buck. But, there is another form of nostalgia that I’ve coined ‘progressive nostalgia,’ which is of course the counter to ‘regressive nostalgia,’ that seems to have emerged.