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    Commentary: Think life just keeps getting worse? Try being nostalgic — for the present

    Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age. “Damn can you imagine being a human during the paleolithic age,” tweeted a self-described “eco-socialist” podcaster in September 2021. “Just eating salmon and berries and storytelling around campfires and stargazing … no jobs no traffic no ads no poverty no capitalism-caused traumas just ...
    by Amanda Montell, Los Angeles Times Apr 18, 2024 4 minutes
    Kodak film sits on a shelf at a photography store Oct. 19, 2005, in Chicago, Illinois.

    Nostalgia seems harmless enough, and then someone starts earnestly — absurdly — glamorizing the Stone Age.

    “Damn can you imagine being a human during the paleolithic age,” tweeted a self-described “eco-socialist” podcaster in September 2021. “Just eating salmon and berries and storytelling around campfires and stargazing … no jobs no traffic no ads no poverty no capitalism-caused traumas just pure vibes.”

    By the time that bit of fantasy circulated on social media, romanticizing the far-off past had become a mid-pandemic, post-insurrection cultural pattern. Women were spinning yarn on Instagram, early 19th century style. Far-right zealots were parroting populist slogans, promising to restore

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