TW: SA, Mentions of Grooming, Mentions of Bullying
I was browsing YouTube because I was trying to figure out anything about Nostalgia as a part of fascism as I’ve been thinking about a lot of movies and shows that have been trying to basically reboot all this stuff from the '80s '70s and 60s that really don’t need to be rebooted.
And then this popped up and as an Ex-Gamer™ the name was oddly familiar and was a recent video. I watched it and I legit was thinking: “Holy fuck, he thinks that everyone had the Good Ole Days everyday.”
And it has reinforced that I need to find something about there being like “Good Nostalgia” and “Bad Nostalgia” or maybe “Grey Nostalgia”.
Cause I remember when I had a phone as a kid but unfortunately, I remember the same tech was the same that lead to me being groomed. Heck when VHS was around there are people who have been negatively affected by that technology.
I remember playing Yu-Gi-Oh as a kid but unfortunately I was one of the poor black kids that couldn’t get the newest booster packs every single time they came out and therefore I usually got stomped in the games and also I was the only black kid that really played it so in my school that was majority black I would usually get picked on heck I almost fought a kid over trying to steal a deck of cars that I had hey I had a dual disc that was made by somebody that was torn up because some bully didn’t like it. And don’t get me started on the hijinks in middle school I think of that make it hard to think of The Good Ol Days.
But my point is that yes Nostalgia is nice but not something to submerge yourself in to hide from everything. Especially when your nostalgia requires everyone else to be your lesser.