Good old days

Good old days – commonly stylized as "good ol' days" – is a cliché in popular culture used to reference a time considered by the speaker to be better than the current era. It is a form of nostalgia which can reflect homesickness or yearning for long-gone moments.^[1]

There is a predisposition, caused by cognitive biases such as rosy retrospection, a form of survivorship bias, for people to view the past more favourably and future more negatively.^[2]^[3]^[4]

^ "Nostalgic". www.vocabulary.com. Retrieved September 16, 2018.
^ The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang edited by Grant Barrett, p. 90.
^ Etchells, Pete (January 16, 2015). "Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2016.
^ Steven R. Quartz, The State Of The World Isn't Nearly As Bad As You Think, Edge Foundation, Inc., retrieved 2016-02-17

[1] "Nostalgic". www.vocabulary.com. Retrieved September 16, 2018.

[2] The Oxford Dictionary of American Political Slang edited by Grant Barrett, p. 90.

[The_Guardian-3] Etchells, Pete (January 16, 2015). "Declinism: is the world actually getting worse?". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 December 2016.

[4] Steven R. Quartz, The State Of The World Isn't Nearly As Bad As You Think, Edge Foundation, Inc., retrieved 2016-02-17

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