A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

I miss it every minute, and I have no wish at all to go back.

We long to have again the vanished past, in spite of all its pain.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

A society that has made ''nostalgia'' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.

All the things that are in the past are in the past.