The shape of things to come: What the 1920s can teach us about the 2020s GlobeDebate
General Photographic Agency/Getty ImagesAnything Goes: A Biography of the Roaring Twenties: The names say it all.
Consumption and its handmaiden, credit, dominated life for ordinary people in the 1920s, especially in the United States, where the war had produced an economic boom without any punishing need for rebuilding or reparations.
Policy and infrastructure developed around these new drivers: Asphalted highways and traffic lights and filling stations preoccupied town planners. Auto-related industries such as rubber, steel, glass and petroleum boomed, and the desire to control oil fields became a key motivating factor in international relations – the ramifications of which are still being played out in the Middle East today.
U.S. President Donald Trump has his closest comparison in Warren Harding, whose chiselled features looked as if they belonged on Mount Rushmore but whose ignorance and personal weakness brought the institution of the presidencyThe Republican Party used a special slush fund to pay off his mistresses during the campaign, and even before he took office there was a scandal over a love-child.
If the 1920s were defined by Prohibition, will the 2020s be the decade of legalization? Canada’s experiment with legalized cannabis might be commonplace globally by the end of the 2020s.
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