I find it so interesting that America- this crazy country that has never done anything other than whatever the hell it wants, is always chasing the past. There is nostalgia in everything we do! Not just in the music we discussed by Chess that is designed to make people homesick for the South, or country music for the same kind of thing. But nostalgia is marketed to us, literally, it is used in ad campaigns every day.

“You need this new camera to preserve memories of your kids who are growing up too fast.”

“You need to buy this light bulb to save the planet so your children can enjoy the same Earth you did.”

It’s shoved down our throats at every turn and we eat it up! Well, as a youth (ish) of this country I feel personally victimized by this (I’m being dramatic for effect, I swear I’m not a brat.) All this talk about providing a better world for the children and here I am, barely on the cusp of adulthood and reaping no benefits whatsoever from this attack. You want to give your kids a better life? How about health care? How about free higher education? How about sex ed programs in inner cities that actually teach safe sex? How about a government that doesn’t beg us for our vote one second and curse us as lazy the next? OR how about taking some of that ad money clearly going to waste and feeding some of the starving youths out there? I realize that this was in no way really related to the lesson, but that’s what it got me thinking about.