Meanings
- To believe experiences and objects in popular culture (often TV shows, video games etc) from one's past outweigh modern counterparts in terms of quality.
88 Finally, Zuckerman suggested, critics of Big Media may merely be "blinded by nostalgia" for some "golden age 30 or 40 years ago" when broadcast and newspaper companies were independently owned and operated. In fact, he claims,[…]
2012 May 4, Ronald V. Bettig, Jeanne Lynn Hall, Big Media, Big Money: Cultural Texts and Political Economics, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 361 more example
For example, in everyday discussions about popular culture, it is common to find the claim that one's aesthetic appreciation is “blinded by nostalgia” (or that one is wearing “nostalgia goggles”): maybe you think movies were better[…]
2018 November 15, Florian Cova, Sébastien Réhault, Advances in Experimental Philosophy of Aesthetics, Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN, page 26
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