Angriest Rice Cooker Director’s Cut 27–On nostalgia

Although I’m certainly not immune to a certain kind of 80s nostalgia, I still think it’s pretty weird. A lot of stuff in the 80s was fun and wacky, but a lot about it was really stupid and bad. But I guess that’s nostalgia for you. Not rational.

This is one comic that I had a little trouble getting to work because of my desire not to use “Americans” as a synonym for “people in the United States,” since America is a lot bigger than the US. But there isn’t really a pithy way to say “people in the United States” that’s not that. So I just went for the metonym and had the United States be nostalgic and vapid.

How vapid is the United States that it’s actually nostalgic for the 80s. Are the “good old days” really a period dominated by idiotic pop culture, shitty plastic toys and overpriced single-purpose gadgets? Well…I guess it’s not all bad.

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