Contemporary media has proven to be obsessed with encouraging nostalgia. Examples of this trend include the current rash of remakes in film, the video game industry's reliance on vintage game downloads, and DVD/Blu-Ray box sets of beloved television series. Instead of encouraging an engagement with the past that functions as an adaptive mirror with which we can compare and contrast our contemporary situation, the past instead is presented as a mediated version that transfixes us as uncritical citizens of our own culture. The cultural implications of a cross-media eternal return to nostalgia is an arresting of individuals in an uncritical mindset that has increasingly defined who we are as people and societies by what media we consumed as children. The media feigns a shared cultural base with its nostalgic mindset, but really points to an insular and postmodern surface understanding of history.