For a remarkable number of people across the world, it was a time of relative peace and rising prosperity
Oasis lead singer Liam Gallagher and his brother Noel Gallagher at the Cardiff International Arena in 1997. Photo: Joanne Nelson/PA WireNostalgia comes for everyone in the end. There is a human predisposition to view the past through rose-tinted spectacles and to anticipate the future with a sense of dread.
But, as Marcel Proust knew, the true bittersweet pleasure of nostalgia derives from contemplation of one’s own vanished youth and, by implication, one’s mortality. As hundreds of thousands of ageing millennials across Ireland and the UK brace themselves for the tidal wave of 1990s memorabilia that will accompany next summer’s Oasis reunion tour, the world of their teens will come sharply back to life. Jack Charlton and Riverdance. Tony Blair and the Spice Girls.
To be truly compelling, though, nostalgia must include some sense of paradise lost. The 1990s were the final decade before the internet seeped into all corners of public and private life. It was the last time when a home could be bought by a single person for a reasonable sum. More ambiguously, it was the moment when the seeds of future discontents were sown by economic globalisation.
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