So much crisis response (see thinking on the financial crisis, the health care crisis, the education crisis, etc.) has an implicit return-to-the-way-things-were-before-they-fell-apart feel to them. This ignores the possibility that the seeds of the emergency at hand (be it financial, health care, education, what all) may have been sewn in the way things used to be.
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I wonder if nostalgia can be instructive. If we remember our way back, beyond superficial notions of “the way things were,” we may recover some fundamental values and beliefs and aspirations, and we may see these as timeless. We may question why these became lost or covered over, and we may see our world (and ourselves in it) in ways that are useful right now. This is not “back to the future”; it is learning and living in the “now.”