Alfie Kohn on Nostr: So much of conservatives' angry nostalgia for "how simple life used to be" in the ...
So much of conservatives' angry nostalgia for "how simple life used to be" in the good old days confuses a life-cycle effect (what is true of people at a certain age) with a period effect (what is true of everyone at a certain point in history).
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https://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/aggressive-nostalgia/ 
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