Loved this piece! Really made me reflect on the commodification of nostalgia. It’s a call to action to acknowledge the complexities of the American cultural identity and resist the temptation to romanticize or over sanitize its history. Thank you for articulating this perfectly!
Thank you so much!!! I wrote a piece last year on overly romanticizing the past more generally - I feel like I always have that achey American nostalgia in the summer when the Fourth of July rolls around. It’ll probably come on two-fold this year with the Olympics happening.
You’re brilliant at starting with one subject and then connecting it to what always seems to me like unrelated people, places and things. You then tie it all together to draw fascinating conclusions. Amazing. 🙌🏻
Loved this piece! Really made me reflect on the commodification of nostalgia. It’s a call to action to acknowledge the complexities of the American cultural identity and resist the temptation to romanticize or over sanitize its history. Thank you for articulating this perfectly!
Thank you so much!!! I wrote a piece last year on overly romanticizing the past more generally - I feel like I always have that achey American nostalgia in the summer when the Fourth of July rolls around. It’ll probably come on two-fold this year with the Olympics happening.
You’re brilliant at starting with one subject and then connecting it to what always seems to me like unrelated people, places and things. You then tie it all together to draw fascinating conclusions. Amazing. 🙌🏻
Thank you so much Carl :))
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