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#150: Mohsin Hamid, novelist

Always Take Notes

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Nostalgic Narratives That Take Us Back to the Past

All over the world there's a sense that the future no longer looks very promising. We wind up in a sense turning away from the future, and the future starts to repel us. And we then are easily attracted by nostalgic narratives. In place after place there's some kind of nostalgic narrative that tells us that some point in the past should be our destination.

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