turn around
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"Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around." = "Nostalgia is only the reverse of amnesia."
Nostalgia is the yearning for things you remember; amnesia is yearning to remember things you have forgotten.
"This part does not fit!"
"You are trying to put it in the wrong way - turn it around."
Nostalgia is the yearning for things you remember; amnesia is yearning to remember things you have forgotten.
"This part does not fit!"
"You are trying to put it in the wrong way - turn it around."
Thanks, PaulQ!
How about in the context below:
Whenever we’re apt to sound off about how contemporary education — or any other aspect of modern life — is unprecedented in its capacity to give offense, the knowledge that our grandparents or distant ancestors said much the same thing, give or take a superficial detail, serves to remind us of an observation once offered by Adrienne Rich: “Nostalgia is only amnesia turned around.”
-http://www.alfiekohn.org/blogs/remember-higher-standards-neither/
In this context, it seemed to me that nostalgia is a weaker form of amnesia.
And still, the meaning of "turned around" is still confusing to me.
I really appreciate your help.
Turned around = reversed (in position or direction)
"Nostalgia is amnesia turned around/reversed". As I read it, it means that amnesia is the inability to remember things of the past. Nostalgia is the opposite; people who are nostalgic are obsessed with the past. The past is "more real" to nostalgics than the present.
"Nostalgia is amnesia turned around/reversed". As I read it, it means that amnesia is the inability to remember things of the past. Nostalgia is the opposite; people who are nostalgic are obsessed with the past. The past is "more real" to nostalgics than the present.