Nostalgia

As someone once said ""Nostalgia isn't what it used to be".

I remember the miners strike, the IRA bombings, AIDS and the Cold War. Adverts were actually played on the TV to tell people what to do in the event of a nuclear attack. The Frankie song Two Tribes depicts it very well. My childhood was a constant worry of being blown up.

Technology started to advance, the problem was that most of it never really worked very well.

My highlight of the 80’s was watching Live Aid on the Tv, Queen, The Quo, George Michael , David Bowie and Annie Lennox.

I also passed my driving test the same year as Live Aid.

I thought that was the 1970's?

Didn’t it get the nickname “The decade that taste forgot”. 

The fall of the wall was indeed good but for Eastern Europe it has since then a story of conflict piled upon conflict. I read somewhere that during the 20C the number months when there wasn’t a war somewhere on the globe is numbered in single digits. This should not be surprising as it is what happens over and over, history inevitably repeats itself with humans, I don’t believe we sre capable of learning the lessons, and neither democracy nor dictatorships end well. 

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I think one of the best albums of the whole decade was Hounds of Love, by Kate Bush.

Ok, the clothes I DEFINITELY agree on lol

The Berlin Wall coming down was good, so was the opening up of the former USSR and its componenet coutries getting their freedom. But other things happening, riots, Thatcherite politics, yuppies and the excess and indulgence of the age no, I didn't like those at all.

I loved the music, but I didn't care too much about the clothes, especially towards the end of the decade.  I guess the reason that I have fond memories of the 80s , is because that's when The Berlin Wall came down.

I didn't like a lot of the music either, or the clothes

It does cause problems, but sometimes nostalgia is a good thing for creativity. In fact, I'd say it's good specifically for creativity alone, because undoing progress we make in the modern day due to nostalgia is an awful thing.

A renaissance is always welcome when it comes to the arts. Nostalgia when it comes to politics is pure wrong though

I remember the 80's all to well, much of it was horrible.

I don't like nostalgia, I think it's a national disease that keeps up anchored to a highly rose tinted view of the past instead of learning from it and getting on with the present

I wonder if going back to the 80's could change the present

I never lived through the 80s, but my closest connection to it is the Transformers 1986 movie. The entire soundtrack personifies the spirit of the 80s, imo