patolojik nostalji

ah, thenadays--so close to "them were the days"--when there was no crime, divorce was unheard of, people knew how to spell, everyone had good handwriting, propriety and decorum ruled, and so on and on into the long boring night of nostalgia. start talking about thenadays and one soon finds one's intellectual motor has shifted into full crank, with everything about nowadays dreary, third-rate, and decline-and-fallish. a big mistake. the reason old people think that the world is going to hell, Santayana says, is they believe that, without them in it, which will soon enough be the case, how good really can it be?

- Joseph Epstein

"biz eskiden..." ile baslayan monologlar patolojik turden nostaljik egilimler icerebilir. karsinizdaki kisi gizliden gizliye, hic bir zaman tadina bakamayacagi bir gelecege ozlem duyuyor olabilir.