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Originally Posted by davee930
Can you imagine living in the 20s?
It's like the masturbation stage of humanity that ejaculated ingenious machinery and the greatest buildings of all time, in my opinion.
Then came the sleepy period after...
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Yes, it's often stated that the 20s was the party and the 30s was the hangover.
It was, however, NOT just a North American phenomenon but happened all across the Western world. In Europe it was referred to as the 'Golden Age Twenties' and in France as 'The Crazy Years' due to it's monumental effects on arts, culture, literature, politics, and social norms.
There is another similarity that maybe playing out right now. The 1920s was, due to the Russian Revolution, the start of the Red Scare. Even businesses tried to capitalise on this like Scott tissue paper showing an ad with a toilet with no paper and then asking the question.......Is your washroom breeding Bolsheviks? Seems odd but today China maybe taking over with a new 'Yellow Scare' as the world is waking up to the real threat it poses to our security and economic vitality.
We are also starting to see the parallels with the stock market. It is going crazy right now with no end in sight as the world starts to finally come out of it's collective hibernation and ditto for our soaring real estate prices based upon nothing but wild speculation. We all know how that ended.