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   But, this also helped me to understand how some American media that is overburdened with nostalgic triggers to the point of being annoying to me, can seem wonderful to people who don't recognize all of those triggers. They just see the wider vision of "a simpler time" and "a time of innocence" and all of the the things like white picket fences and KitchenAid blenders in chrome that speak to me of both innocence and violence are just strange and beautiful when abstracted.

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     myrmepropagandist (futurebird@sauropods.win)'s status on Friday, 28-Mar-2025 23:55:57 JST myrmepropagandist

     Thinking about Miyazaki and the way that his animation uses nostalgia. A good friend who grew up in South Korea surprised me when she said she couldn't stand "Ghibli Stuff" from her perspective it was laden with all of these very Japanese nostalgic touchstones, brands, technologies, tropes. She said it reminded her of "Leave it to Beaver" or "Art Deco Denis the Menace" --And right away I could see exactly what she meant. It's just for me the cues didn't land because I didn't have the proximity.

     Mr. Bill repeated this.