“Remembrance of the past may give rise to dangerous insights, and the established society seems to be apprehensive of the subversive contents of memory.”
— Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man
Welcome to Dangerous Memory — the podcast where we reconsider everything we thought we knew about the 1980s.
I’m your host Charlie Angus author of the book Dangerous Memory: Coming of Age in the Decade of Greed, published by the House of Anansi Press and soon on audio books with Tantor Media. Each episode, we’ll crack open a chapter of the 1980s and ask: what really happened and why does it matter?
In this first chapter, we take a look at nostalgia and its power to obscure the truth.
Nostalgia doesn’t actually reconnect us with the past, it obscures what really went down by diverting our memory with dopamine drops of inconsequential longing.
We’re going back to the 80’s — let’s get started.
