Once again, just to be clear, I’m not suggesting that the evil geniuses who pulled off the remarkable political and economic transformation from the 1970s through the ’90s also planned or executed our cultural U-turn. In this respect, they were mainly just shrewd and lucky. Rather, it’s like when two different chronic illnesses tend to appear in the same people at the same time—like arthritis and heart disease, or depressive disorders and anxiety disorders, or COVID-19 and type 2 diabetes. The medical term of art is comorbidity. The outbreak of mass nostalgia in the 1970s that then developed
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