"It sounds cliché, but it really does sound like a romantic breakup.
Oh, yeah, absolutely. The analogy is perfect and it's almost trite how perfect it is. But it's like, you're dating someone; you love them and care about them. Or you tell yourself you love them. But you're also maybe on the same car insurance plan and it just works. And then your sexy ex comes back around and they're no longer in a dark place. And what you had with them and created with them speaks to another time; it speaks to more record sales. [Laughs] It just makes a little more sense. Like you're a little closer in age; even that alone, it's like you can communicate more. Even if in two years their relationships grow sour again, there's something familiar. So yeah, I'm that person that you love and you care about, but I wasn't there in 1988.

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"One of the reasons why propaganda tries to get you to hate government is because it's the one existing institution in which people can participate to some extent and constrain tyrannical unaccountable power." Noam Chomsky.