The Internet's many nostalgia-stoking listicles about old video games and cartoons are exploitative, sure, but they also serve a valuable psychological purpose. Remembering stuff from one's safe and comfortable middle-class childhood is a refreshing and sustaining elixir against a frightening, crumbling word of encroaching poverty, political upheaval, and loneliness. Nostalgia, in a way, is a jacket, and when you put it on your shoulders and run around with your arms extended and pretend to fly, that is when your soul takes "flight." Doing this as an adult will protect your fragile soul, and now that you're old enough to have taste and money, you can do it in style.
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