Can We Do the Roaring Twenties Again?
Added 2023-09-21 10:07:05 +0000 UTCThe last time we hit the Twenties, flappers in long pearl necklaces danced the Charleston to the tunes of live jazz bands. People drank Champaign like water and threw out their morals with last night’s canapes. Then they went home to read the latest books: Novels by John F. Fitzgerald, Ezra Pound, and Hemingway. T.S. Eliot worked in a bank and churned out bits of genius as though they were limericks. Talent flowed like water and so did money. Wealth doubled in only a decade, and women learned how to be unladylike.
Can we do that decade again, now?
Please?
Can we get back to the days when rebellion was a perfectly adequate response to shitty laws? Can we get back to *living* our morality instead of fighting with each other about it? Can we churn out Great Gatsbys and books about Old Possums’ Practical Cats again?
Please?
In the Jazz Age, T.S. Elliot wrote, “This is how the world ends, not with a bang, but a whimper.”
We’ve spent all century whimpering. This is the year of the grouch. We’ve shouted. We’ve complained. We’ve done everything except roar. Can we do the Roaring Twenties all over again?
Please?
