February 2012
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Paul: You know, nostalgia is denial. Denial of the painful present.
Gil: Oh, whoa!
Inez: Gil is a complete romantic. I mean, he would be more than happy living in a complete state of perpetual denial.
Carol: Really?
Paul: And the name for this fallacy is called "golden-age thinking."
Inez: Ah, touché.
Paul: Yeah, the erroneous notion that a different time period is better than the one one's living in. It's a flaw in the Romantic imagination of those people who... who find it difficult to cope with the depressive.
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