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Disco Demolition Night

You're Wrong About

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The Rise of Nostalgia

The whole disco sex backlash showed the power of nostalgia as a marketing tool. And also the way that nostalgia can be weaponized. If you look at almost any reactionary authoritarian regime across the world right now, I will make things like they used to be is the message at the heart of all of them. It's kind of amazing that within basically a year disco becomes this societal embarrassment.

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