Subject: Maslow and nostalgia and Cecilia, oh my
From: Jennifer Besiada (jbesiada@nettel.com)
Date: Fri Aug 25 2000 - 10:50:47 GMT
I never pass up an opportunity to quote from one of my favorite flicks,
*Kicking and Screaming* (1995; director/writer Noah Baumbach):
Max: I'm too nostalgic. I'll admit it
Skippy: We graduated four months ago. What can you possibly be nostalgic
for?
Max: I'm nostalgic for conversations I had yesterday. I've begun
reminiscing events before they even occur. I'm reminiscing this right now. I
can't go to the bar because I've already looked back on it in my
memory...and I didn't have a good time.
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I wish to be in complete agreement with Cecilia,
<<It takes a little while for a person to understand that the time and the
place is immaterial. That it's the living that counts>>,
yet it is a little hypocritical of the way I live. Being born a dreamer
(dismissing all sense of responsibility here), I believe it is very
characteristic of my kind to not only revisit our past nostalgically
(sporting thick wallets packed with evidence of yesterday and never letting
a single photo fade) but to mentally visit non-existent times and places
through contrived memories as well. Same need.
It is a fantastic, fantastic need, one Maslow overlooked on his top 5 list,
but so over-bearing and controlling that it has led society into doing crazy
things such as repeatedly visiting the cinema and reading books.
Jennifer
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