A metaphor for someone viewing something in the past as much better than it actually was refusing to remember how bad something may have been.
People wearing nostalgia goggles usually wanna go back in
time & live in a certain period again, forgetting everything wrong with that
time period.
Nostalgia goggle users often prefer old crappy versions of TV shows & movies they grew up watching rather than the new & improved versions.
Ex 1: a Dragonball fan who grew up with the Ocean Dub that hates the Funimation
dub for being different is wearing nostalgia goggles, refusing to admit the Funi
dub is much more professional & authentic than the amateur sounding Ocean
dub.
Ex 2: a
woman who grew up watching My Little
Pony who hates Friendship is Magic for being different has a bad case of nostalgia goggles.
Ex 3: an old person who thinks the 1950s were much better than the present
day in every way & wishes to go back is wearing nostalgia goggles, forgetting that we had half the conveniences, technology, development, infrastructure, movies, etc we do today.
Old
Russian: our motherland isnt what it used to be. I miss the Soviet Union & I think we should go back. Turn full communist again & take back the republics.
Normal
Russian: I agree some things were better back then but take off the nostalgia goggles. We were like
North Korea back then. This was a terrible place to live, we were just more unified & patriotic then.
