Thursday, January 2, 2020

The New 20's

Ace points out that we finally 'have a decade with a name' and says we're at the end of a 20 year decade. This seems right and also seems like a common occurrence.  The first two decades of the 20th century pretty much feel the same historically, it all has the same grainy historical footage, everyone is wearing button upped collars. One can even do the trick with the 19th century. Throughout the second decade of the 19th century a founding father was president, the first five years were dominated by our relationship with Britain. Heck fashions didn't even change that much.

Ace nails the feel of the last 20 years perfectly. 'Culturally' he says the long decade begins on 9/11. From there we have war, more war, economic stagnation, cultural rift, technological wonders, the decline of film, the rise of TV drama, the death of comedy.

Over at Legal Insurrection, Leslie Eastman marks the 'Return of the Roaring 20's'. Heh. For younger reader(s), growing up in the 70's and 80's the 20's kinda sorta felt like the modern world. Thinking about our own grandfather's childhood, in the 20's he had everything we had in the 80's just less modern versions of it. Cars, movies, radios, baseball, electricity. The only thing we had that he didn't was TV. Otherwise...

Reader(s) should click on through and read the rest.

Just think Generation-X, in ten years the 20's won't refer to Flappers and Prohibition but whatever is about to happen in this decade.

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