“Eternal nothingness is fine if you happen to be dressed for it” — Woody Allen.
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Radio broadcasting began in the 1920s. That was probably the most important consumer cultural media thing.
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The reboot of grand narrative was an existential threat thing in 1920s
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How did people survive the 1920s? Looks like we could use a few ideas.
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The great gatsby was actually a cthulhu mushroom
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For some reason I feel like connecting The Great Gatsby to The Call of Cthulhu in the same extended universe. What’s the most plausible connection?
Maybe Gatsby dreams of Cthulhu? Maybe Daisy *is* Cthulhu?
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We’ve been LARPing the 1910s transition to modernism all along.
“Miguel de Unamuno y Jugo, in his 1913 book The Tragic Sense of Life in Men and Nations, emphasized the life of "flesh and bone" as opposed to that of abstract rationalism.”
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I basically laid around doing nothing all day today but sometimes idle days pay off. I’ve been tugging at these strings for months now. Finally it all comes together 😎🐙🦑
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My theory of the 2020s rhyming with the 1920s is a bit American-centric but I’m going to guess it was a global big mood then too.
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Roaring 20s, Jazz Age, Cthulhu, Spanish Flu aftermath hedonism, interwar global economic instability, collapse of grand narrative, birth of existentialism, Dada art, Weimar era, beginning of end of European empires, Cthulhu mythos.
Sound familiar?
Transpose to 2020s.
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Yeah, Kierkegaard and Nietzsche come earlier and Sartre comes after. But the ferment appears to peak in the 20s, alongside modernism.
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Well I don’t really know it either. I’m mostly fitting Wikipedia data to a pet theory here 🤣
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