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Rather, it sees a country mired in
nostalgia
– easy pickings for destabilization.
So even if the end of Pax Americana does not result in military invasions, or world wars, we should ready ourselves for a time when we might recall the American Empire with fond
nostalgia.
Although hardly anyone in his right mind would advocate the revival of slavery,
nostalgia
for the Old South is still tinged with racism.
It is a form of Cold War
nostalgia
– a dream of returning to a time when much of the globe was recovering from a ruinous world war and living in fear of communism.
With political pressures encroaching on the bank’s policy decisions and a faux consensus, it is not surprising that there is now
nostalgia
in Frankfurt for earlier times and for Wim Duisenberg, even among his former critics.
This politics of
nostalgia
is troubling, not only because France and Europe confront severe economic challenges, but also because France and other democracies are confronted with real challenges to their legitimacy.
The current campaign shows that xenophobia and
nostalgia
for communism retain an alarmingly potent appeal.
Propaganda-driven
nostalgia
for the Soviet Union’s Cold War-era “great power” status is obscuring the lessons of that time.
Many Britons retain a certain
nostalgia
about the past, which they recall as more familiar, controlled, and safe.
That
nostalgia
was constantly reinforced by a vitriolic anti-European – and, in particular, anti-German – campaign spearheaded by some of the country’s leading media.
Here, the right, represented by the Republican Party, has long been suspicious of the Fed, reflecting its opposition to a powerful federal government, as well as
nostalgia
for the days of the gold standard (particularly the version that operated before the Fed was created in 1913).
Yet, given today’s growing global confusion, if not chaos, something like “Proustian”
nostalgia
for the Congress may not be out of order.
There may not be
nostalgia
for the Cold War in any of this, but much of that era’s mindset can be perceived again in the arguments being knocked about.
Blasphemy And CarnivalNEW YORK: From his Paris exile in 1970, Emil Cioran, the iconoclastic Romanian philosopher, wrote of his
nostalgia
for the somewhat naive energy of those who stayed behind.
After 1918,
nostalgia
for the old empire surged.
As uncertainty and instability associated with that process spread around the globe, the West has responded with either timidity or
nostalgia
for older forms of nationalism that failed in the past and certainly will not work now.
They are out there in significant numbers to protect the status quo, and to express their
nostalgia
for the past and their fear of the future.
Everyone, to some degree, has
nostalgia
for the past, some bleary idea of how the past can (rather than cannot) work in the future.
When you meet today’s “new Russian Nomenklatura,” you experience a sudden feeling of being 20 years younger, awash as they are in
nostalgia
for Cold War posturing.
With Putin’s current clampdown on civil society, re-nationalization of key segments of the economy, failure to develop any political approach to resolving the conflict in Chechnya, and cultivation of imperial nostalgia, Russia is killing its only chance to matter in the future.
Nonetheless, economic insecurity – owing to the rapid pace and, at times, destructiveness of the global economy – evidently is driving much of the public's
nostalgia
for British sovereignty.
Paradoxically, today's Left benefits from a
nostalgia
for those Colorado times, when Uruguay's wealth made the elder Batlle's populism possible.
Europe’s Dangerous NostalgiaMADRID – The European Union has a dangerous case of
nostalgia.
At home, he still ranks first in popularity among the country’s heads of state, kindling
nostalgia
like a popular old record – a corollary to people’s frustration and anger at the current government of President Lee Myung-bak.
As long as the oil money keeps flowing, most Russians will express no
nostalgia
for the democratic opening of the Yeltsin years, with its accompanying combination of chaos, corruption, international weakness, and disrespect for the state.
With 60,000 people killed in the war on drugs, Mexicans – like Russians following the first chaotic years of democratic transition under Boris Yeltsin – opted for political regression, underpinned by
nostalgia
for rule by a firm, if corrupt, hand.
Indeed, today’s Russians have no
nostalgia
for the Yeltsin years, which they associate with confusion, humiliation, shame and weakness.
Nonetheless, a sense of
nostalgia
drove many voters’ decisions.
As always, when fear runs rampant in Europe, people seek salvation in nationalism, isolationism, ethnic homogeneity, and
nostalgia
– the “good old days,” when supposedly all was well in the world.
Just as Putin’s gross mismanagement of the economy has led even the economics minister to predict stagnation for the rest of this decade, his geopolitical
nostalgia
is poised to saddle Russians with the same dysfunctional empire that impoverished them under the Soviets.
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