Nostalgia Is a False Security Blanket

Revisiting the familiar helped us early in the pandemic, but now we have to look to the future, not the past

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Within the first month of coronavirus lockdowns, I started binge-watching Dawson’s Creek. For some reason, during a time of great uncertainty, letting the dulcet tones of “I Don’t Want to Wait” wash over me became the…