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It seems to me what makes these kind of characters often not-to-be-taken-seriously characters are not their sorrows, but their belief that \
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It seems to me what makes these kind of characters often not-to-be-taken-seriously characters are not their sorrows, but their belief that \\\"living in another era\\\" would be a remedy to all sorrows, which often comes across as naive.

YeGoodeOldeDays are by definition an idealized, rose-tinted version of the past. Also see OriginalPositionFallacy: People who \\\"yearn for the past\\\" often make the unspoken assumption that they would have had a higher social position in the past than they have in the present, or that they would be inexplicably immune against the problems and risks that were common in the past but are not now. \\\"The grass is always greener on the other side\\\", respectively in another time.
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It seems to me what makes these kind of characters often not-to-be-taken-seriously characters are not their sorrows, but their belief that \
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It seems to me what makes these kind of characters often not-to-be-taken-seriously characters are not their sorrows, but their belief that \\\"living in another era\\\" would be a remedy to all sorrows, which often comes across as naive.

YeGoodOldDays are by definition an idealized, rose-tinted version of the past. Also see OriginalPositionFallacy: People who \\\"yearn for the past\\\" often make the unspoken assumption that they would have had a higher social position in the past than they have in the present, or that they would be inexplicably immune against the problems and risks that were common in the past but are not now. \\\"The grass is always greener on the other side\\\", respectively in another time.
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