With Spotify Wrapped unlocking a decade of listeners’ streaming data, culture writer Ian Hsieh meets the psychology professor who believes there’s more to nostalgia than a warm, fuzzy feeling
Nostalgia. It’s the enemy of progress. After all, how can you move forward with your life if all you’re doing is looking back, living in the past and uttering melancholic sighs of: “Ah, those were the days” as your eyes slowly glaze over? What about these days you’re living right now, and the days after those, and the days after those?