![]() ![]() A joyless cynic might see this trend as an example of a culture paralysed by conservatism, cowardice and infantilism. With Generation X beginning to reach middle age in slow horrified disbelief, it’s little surprise that 1980s revivalisms are big business, from Stranger Things and Ready Player One to the recent Star Wars resurrection. However forward-thinking and ostensibly unsentimental we might be, there are very few of us who are not moved in some way by these jolts of recognition and the comforting, if illusory, thought that a golden age existed in the past when life was more certain and more stable. Nostalgia is a soothing form of selective amnesia of how things actually were. The allure of nostalgia is powerful, especially in an uncertain, unstable age. But Choose Your Own Adventure offered something more. ![]() Culture in the 1980s was all about escapism. ![]()
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