Our 2016 nostalgia makes sense. But are we worse off now?

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The year 2026 has gotten off to a turbulent start—and young people are looking back on social media with nostalgia at the world of 10 years ago. But…

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A desire runs with the speed of hyperconnectivity and with the intensity of a generation that seems to inhabit an acute nostalgia. "Let the fashion of 2016 return!" exclaims the posts, which do not delay in viralizing as they appeal to the – no longer so young – shared memory of the Z generation.1 That imagined return is not exhausted in the evocation of a recognizable aesthetic – saturated colors, rainbows and galaxies, a diffuse boundary betwe…