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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 29, 2020 18:16:43 GMT
20s...berlin...fun and laughter and drugs and then you become a nazi.
Some life!
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Post by Reactionary Rage on Nov 29, 2020 18:19:02 GMT
For all the benefits we have I'm increasingly sick of our times. There is so much that grates and cheapens and degrades.
Something has gone very wrong.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 29, 2020 18:22:39 GMT
You don't think people thought exactly that in previous decades with its upheavals and changes?
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Post by cousinlou on Nov 29, 2020 18:23:21 GMT
1929s hands down. So much interesting future ahead!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 18:46:29 GMT
I find it amazing the 2020 is winning. That represents a colossal failure of the imagination. Everything in the 1920s was being revolutionised from street lighting to the shape of a tea cup. Every day would have seen some thrilling new sight. Imagine going to a lavish Art Deco cinema for the first time. You had the first transatlantic flight and Hollywood really taking off. And people are putting going to the supermarket and watching TV against all that? They're hardly super sensory experiences.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 29, 2020 18:49:29 GMT
I find it amazing the 2020 is winning. That represents a colossal failure of the imagination. Everything in the 1920s was being revolutionised from street lighting to the shape of a tea cup. Every day would have seen some thrilling new sight. Imagine going to a lavish Art Deco cinema for the first time. You had the first transatlantic flight and Hollywood really taking off. And people are putting going to the supermarket and watching TV against all that? They're hardly super sensory experiences. You may be pitting romance of the past against knowledge of the past and what we know we wouldn't have, and good times were mostly good for a certain few and the rest just got by.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 18:57:58 GMT
I don't care. The working classes were forming trade unions believing that through solidarity they could seize the reigns of power. There was hope and belief in the future.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 29, 2020 19:00:58 GMT
I don't care. The working classes were forming trade unions believing that through solidarity they could seize the reigns of power. There was hope and belief in the future. I don't see skope in his skinny jeans hacking the manual labor.
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Post by tory on Nov 29, 2020 19:08:04 GMT
Go back and read Down and Out in Paris and London.
The sheer poverty of the 20s would surprise you. People were literally stunted from malnutrition and poor diets. Officers in WW1 in the British Army were an average of 6 to 7 inches bigger than the enlisted men.
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Post by Charlie O. on Nov 29, 2020 19:16:00 GMT
One thing I'm surprised no one is mentioning: if we're accessing the 1920s by time machine, then we know what lies ahead for the next hundred years and can use that knowledge to our advantage (as long as we don't do that so radically that it "changes the future," thus rendering it unknowable).
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 19:17:44 GMT
Go back and read Down and Out in Paris and London. The sheer poverty of the 20s would surprise you. People were literally stunted from malnutrition and poor diets. Officers in WW1 in the British Army were an average of 6 to 7 inches bigger than the enlisted men. I wouldn't argue with that. But the question isn't really about which period has the best social welfare. I don't doubt that being poor back then would've been terrible. I'm asking which decade would be most thrilling to experience.
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Post by ~ / % ? * on Nov 29, 2020 19:21:31 GMT
One thing I'm surprised no one is mentioning: if we're accessing the 1920s by time machine, then we know what lies ahead for the next hundred years and can use that knowledge to our advantage (as long as we don't do that so radically that it "changes the future," thus rendering it unknowable). You threw that directly across the plate, but I will refrain from taking a swipe at our UK friends.
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Post by Mr. FOLLARD on Nov 29, 2020 19:25:59 GMT
Go back and read Down and Out in Paris and London. The sheer poverty of the 20s would surprise you. People were literally stunted from malnutrition and poor diets. Officers in WW1 in the British Army were an average of 6 to 7 inches bigger than the enlisted men. I wouldn't argue with that. But the question isn't really about which period has the best social welfare. I don't doubt that being poor back then would've been terrible. I'm asking which decade would be most thrilling to experience. you forgot 'art deco' in that post G
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Post by Deleted on Nov 29, 2020 19:32:50 GMT
One thing I'm surprised no one is mentioning: if we're accessing the 1920s by time machine, then we know what lies ahead for the next hundred years and can use that knowledge to our advantage (as long as we don't do that so radically that it "changes the future," thus rendering it unknowable). You threw that directly across the plate, but I will refrain from taking a swipe at our UK friends. Why break the habit of a lifetime?
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