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Why Nostalgia Ain't So Rosy
The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos
Nastalgia - The Immigrant Experience of Philippe De Bregard
Human minds are so prone to rosy retrospection that it's really simple to feed us a good story about what things were like back in the day, some imagined utopia. Philippe saw just this pattern in his own country's right wing propaganda amid attempts to end decades of political violence. How can we get the benefits of our rosy past without all those biased memories hurting our current decisions? Philippe thinks one path forward is to pay attention to why we're turning to the past in the first place.
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