“We've seen it first in Russia in the 1990s and now
increasingly in the West: an inability to imagine a coherent idea of the
future. Nostalgia has taken over. You could choose many moments when the idea
of that future crumbled—various foreign-policy follies, the 2008 crisis, the
idea that our children are getting poorer than us. What replaces it is a policy
of nostalgia. Nostalgia isn't about specific memories; it's about the sense of
loss. The roots of nostalgia are about losing home.” —Soviet-born British television producer and
nonfiction writer Peter Pomerantsev, “Soapbox: The Columnists—WSJ. Asks Six
Luminaries to Weigh in on a Single Topic; This Month: Nostalgia,” WSJ.com,
October 2019
(Photo of Peter Pomerantsev taken Sept. 25, 2016, by
Vogler.)
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