Nostalgia cycle

Nostalgia cycle

It has been argued that there is a nostalgia cycle. Various durations of this cycle have been alleged, including epicycles (i.e., nostalgia for the last nostalgia cycle). Reynolds said that, if a twenty-year nostalgia cycle applied, then 1980s nostalgia would have ended c. 2010. In 2016, Chaney said that this had not happened, and that a twenty-year nostalgia cycle did not appear to apply. It has been said that, if one believed in nostalgia cycles, then the popularity of Mad Men in the 2010s would require 1960s nostalgia to follow a forty-year nostalgia cycle. It has been argued that the nostalgia cycle has been disrupted, and thus has ceased to exist, or changed its duration to become longer or shorter; and it has been argued that cable television and the Internet are what disrupted it. Wickman argued that the nostalgia cycle never existed, and that belief in its existence is based on cherry-picked evidence.