This Is Why The 1920s SUCKED

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0:00 Intro
0:24 Global Instability
3:03 Rise Of Dictators
4:34 Racial Violence
7:32 Other Violence
8:03 Xenophobia
9:19 First Red Scare & Political Persecution
11:02 Prohibition & Gangsters
13:13 Political Scandals
15:47 Wall Street Crash
16:27 Sensationalism
17:41 Psychological Advertising
18:57 Outro

[@The1920sChannel]

I think some viewers are unaware that I also made a video titled “This Is Why The 1920s Were GREAT.” So, before you think I’m only being negative, please check out that video to balance things out.

[@ricardolorrio8228]

by 1920, the USA had the best economy in the world ... and after 1948 too... so, the 1920s, and 1950s were the golden age of America ...

[@johnhoefert5185]

I'm 67 years old. I've come to realize that EVERY era sucks to some degree, especially our era. And every era is amazing in other ways. Let me explain one thing that does NOT suck. That is, your channel!! It is one of the best on KZbin. Your channel is greatly appreciated by many. Best wishes to you and your loved ones. Thank you.

[@jec1ny]

Hear hear.

[@tristangossman8910]

Took the words right out of my mouth...every era has its upside and downs...especially now

[@JanosBanics]

Yeah every time is shit.

[@julianakleijn9254]

As a millennial ABSOLUTELY RIGHT!!!!

[@changingpeopleslivesmoon2993]

As a gen. Z agree

[@marycleary-qe5ou]

The Depression and WW2 didn't fall from the sky.

[@sawtooth808]

No, but lots of Wall Street stock brokers did during The Crash

[@Shadders2010]

​@@sawtooth808 turns out that was exaggerated.

[@radicalross7700]

@@marycleary-qe5ou Well, what can you expect from a decade that began with humanity still reeling from the empire-destroying effects of World War I, plus a widespread pandemic that killed twice as many people as WW1, and then ended with a disastrous stock market crash?

[@glennso47]

A lot of people are nostalgic about the 1950s and 60s as being so wonderful. Similarly to the 1920s . I remember the 1960s as when I came of age and simultaneously found myself in the Vietnam War so in that sense I am not sure if I would want to go back. I can’t be nostalgic about the 20s because it was way before my time. I was born in 1947. 😮

[@Fla5thgenTryMe]

Same families pulling the strings now. This child is dealing in lies and fantasy. It's not he's fault he has zero experience.

[@maxpayne2574]

History must never be sugar coated. I see the problem with my generation now. They seem to have forgotten Vietnam, civil rights protests, Kent State ect and declare those were the good old days.

[@MF-ty2zn]

Memories are short regardless of generation.

[@MrEab2010]

it depends on how old you were and where you lived. I was born in 1960 and grew up since birth with well-to-do parents living in a conservative middle-class Long Island suburb. My life was closer to that of Leave It To Beaver or The Brady Bunch. I saw the outside world largely through television and visits to my grandparents' home in Harlem. It was only until I got to college in the late 70s that a different world opened up to me.

[@paulmccarter908]

Maybe they didn't forget, rather, they were the right wing conservatives of their time. Stop assuming

[@shaggybreeks]

It's funny, but only up to a point, and then it becomes disturbing to think that so many people who should know better, have a completely delusional view of the past. It makes you wonder what other delusions they harbor.

[@pukeachu]

We haven't forgotten the Civil Rights Movement, so much as borne witness to what happens when uncivilized Africans are given opportunities they're not prepared for, and when you stop carpetbombing yellow people out of existence. They prop up communism, eons after it's disappeared everywhere else on Earth

[@davidmartin8211]

Unfortunately, the 1920s has receded from memory and history to pure history. anyone who could tell you what actually happened, from their personal perspective, would be approximately 114 to 115 years old.

[@ThePlataf]

Not quite. My neighbour is almost 100 and her memory of the 20s is very clear.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

A perceived trigger for the drop in KKK membership was a triple murder in Blue Lake Township, Michigan in May of 1926. A disgruntled Township Constable (and purported head of the Muskegon County KKK) sent a mail bomb to the owner of the Three Lakes Tavern, killing him, his daughter, and impending son-in-law, who were all gathered around the package presuming it to be a present for the wedding taking place in a few days. The reason for the murder was the objection to the tavern owner having been elected Township Supervisor, as the man was a Catholic. Many Klan members had treated the organization as a social club, and the horror of the brutal murder shocked them into quitting.

[@godfreecharlie]

Not enough. And those that went on to spread more depravity helped the KKK stay alive and remain a place for southern inbred whites to turn to for their 3 grades education.

[@Muonium1]

It seems more plausible that one of the most influential and powerful leaders of the Klan at the time, the Grand Dragon (not Wizard) D. C. Stephenson's widely publicized 1925 trial and conviction for the abduction, rape, and murder of Madge Oberholtzer, a state education official, had a much larger effect on its membership. Though I am still skeptical of the numbers shown in the graph depicting a collapse of an order of magnitude within a year, and I think an exaggeration of the peak membership numbers, or of the decline in numbers in '25 is more likely.

[@janerkenbrack3373]

@@Muonium1 You're probably right. I wasn't aware of that case, and only aware of the Three Lakes Tavern murder because the property is just down the corner from me.

[@novanadams835]

This is washing history. Most KKK memebrs did NOT feel bad about their actions and viewed any movement of people from their areas as a win. This was very common in america

[@clocksurfer]

Good topic. Too many of my fellow Americans today are ignorant of this history, dooming us to repeat it.

[@jackflanagle6079]

See George Orwell's ''Down & Out in Paris & London'' for an extremely candid but very unvarnished, unromantic look at the '20's.

[@ey67]

Great read. Beyond gritty and sad. And even funny. Strange thing life

[@gabschasse600]

Makes ya wonder whats happened through history that was never known and recorded.

[@lohphat]

Antibiotics and chemo and advanced surgeries didn’t exist. Many more people died who got sick or injured. Not to mention infant mortality was about 15% and many women died in childbirth.

[@petebondurant58]

President Coolidge's son died from a blister on his toe that became infected.

[@cocoaorange1]

Amen!

[@t.j.payeur5331]

Humanity has always been right on the brink...

[@stuartwray6175]

In the stone age it was often on the brink. Trust me, lol.

[@jec1ny]

Good video. One thing I would add is that the 1920s was really the last decade where there was basically no social safety net in the US. If you lost your job, especially if it was the result of illness or injury where you couldn't work, you had better hope your family could take care of you. There was no unemployment or disability insurance. No welfare or food stamps. No old age insurance (Social Security) or Medicare/Medicaid. If a bread winner in a family lost their job it could be catastrophic. Yes, there was private charity. But that was hit and miss, and very limited in the best of circumstances. And during serious economic downturns, as would be seen in the 1930s, it often proved hopelessly inadequate.

[@k.m.h7480]

People never talk about that. So true and interesting

[@stevensiferd7104]

That was the inspiration for the life insurance ads shown at the end of the video. Their aggressive scare tactics were merely pointing out that if you didn't buy life insurance, your family would very likely suffer if you died.

[@charleskleesattel6477]

Interesting to imagine what this country would be like if Heritage Foundation concepts work into our lives and the 'New Deal' laws from FDR are eliminated.

[@davidpildner8261]

Absolutely excellent video! You just keep getting better!

[@heronimousbrapson863]

If the GOP get their way, we'll be returning to that era.

[@davidpahlka6301]

My Mother, who married my Father in 1932, kept old letters from a cousin of her Mother who lived in Indiana. The were difficult to read as his handwriting was very poor. My grandmother would ask him to send money for her maiden aunts and he replied he couldn't send more because the Studebaker Car Company were laying off people in a mini-depression and he wasn't collecting rent. He blamed it on Wilson's War or WWI., showing the Great Depression had it's forewarnings. Europe was already suffering a depression. There were economic hardships in Oklahoma and the Midwest before the great Dust Bowl migrations to California. Prohibition ended because the people didn't want it, there was an increase in crime and the illegal booze often would kill people just like the illegal drug trade does now. Proof of how harmful it was if the fact the state whose vote ended it was none other than Utah. My grandfather joined the KKK but my grandmother tricked him out of it by claiming we were Jewish. She showed him an article about Solomon Harris and said Solomon is a Jewish name, so she must be part Jewish. One of my aunts said "But Momma you lied." She responded with "If we all came from Adam and Eve, there must be some Jewish blood somewhere." In the 1920's and '30's there were more people in the KKK in the Midwest, Indiana, Ohio and Illinois than in the deep South. Cheaper labor from the freed Blacks who went North was the cause. People resented when the Whites worked for $8:00 a day and the Blacks would work for $4.00. This disparity in wages for different races was the cause of racial prejudice according to Mark Twain. You will see it in California and Texas against the Chinese and Mexicans.

[@thetooginator153]

I really enjoyed reading your comment! I especially admire your brave and brilliant grandmother!

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

I loved the grandmother’s story, too. She knew how to outsmart nonsense with love & wit! I don’t have her skills & wish I, too, could say things directly without invoking ire. But sometimes things should be pointed-out in order to eradicate Confusion & to dispel woe, too. The true origins of Racism are unknown. However, it’s a safe bet that War, acts of war, forages of war, & close-personal inappropriate affairs are a lot closer to the truest causes of international “policies” of Racism, as well being behind the pseudoscience classifying homo sapien-sapien by “race,” as that “developed.” WHEN it was “discovered,” that a) everywhere conquering tribes & militaries landed, the people living there had skin color & b) whenever soldiery realized that they could not have babies who were White by their Nonwhite conquests, certain reactionary protocols developed over stretches of time. What if the Nonwhite males ever became conquering soldiers exerting the same treatments against White female “spoils of War?” would have been the primary concern. Race-ism, the subjugation of people classified by “race” (really by color), including eradicating people altogether, but not limited to doing so, has biological origins, specific to its intentions. It is NOT the same as “prejudice,” because that can be relatively-easily dispelled, once customary, language & geographical barriers are overcome between any people. Racism of the USA-concept had NOTHING to do with “wages,” despite Mr. Twain’s literary expertise, & the wage conflicts ensuing in New England-concepts over Irish & Italian immigrants demanding better treatment-which had a basis. It is the Perception of “a threat” where either none is intended, or the Cause of emotional responses is misdirected which constitutes the basic framework of Systemic Injustice/Racism. Obviously, freed-enslaved people WOULD accept whatever wages they could get. Obviously, they didn’t flee plantations in order to enjoy the bracing air of Boston nor to “undercut” the salaries of people they didn’t know existed. But they were targeted in those attacks-& all the subsequent ones-due to the generally-held perception that Blackness itself constitutes an “evil threat.” Dictionaries still say so. They also define the color “white” in directly-opposing terms. Systematically assigning meanings to colors has a deceptive purpose-when also associated to skin colors. Hence racism as a practice has been subconsciously systematized over hundreds of years, evolving by the spread of propaganda, & the conquering & decimating of every known land mass & former empire or nation-concept where people with melanin in the skin resided. The survivors, now decreasing in populace, have all been subjugated hundreds of years ago. The thoughts/speech/acts against them continue to be refined & upgraded, but the intent remains a slow or rapid eradication biologically-systematically. As with all so-called “natives” globally. Regardless to any assimilated Nonwhite status achieved. The symbol-formations of God-concept imagery, black hats, black cats, & use of terms like “dark,” or “blackballing” to evoke subconscious triggers & responses are pre-conditioned now, pre-programmed into people’s minds before they are born. So thorough has the task been done that Nonwhite people hold inner-contempt for each other in 2024, & they themselves reinforce color lines within Asian- & Afrikan-concept populations worldwide. That isn’t “prejudice,” it is anti-Black orientation-Racism/WS (the ONLY functional form of racism in material effect). The critical differences that remain have only to do with Power, Privileges, Positioning, Payola, & the monopolies on fire, water, earth, & air planetary resources. NO Nonwhite peoples have free & sovereign control of those that override or undercut a White-monetized & military-backed authority. All ANY Nonwhite people can do is to respond to that system & dynamic, adapt to it, or speak in the best possible interests of establishing Justice. Until that is established & practiced, only one (1) dynamic exists between any people born. Only one worldwide System for “deciding” who is treated civilly or is mistreated systemically, based on “race.”

[@bethanycook8430]

Grandma was a rockstar

[@TransVangal]

The 1920s sucked in the beginning probably because of the Great war and towards the end because of the stock market crash.🎉😢

[@sawtooth808]

And sandwiched in the middle was the Spanish Flu pandemic

[@chrisnemec5644]

Well, few things you did leave out are: 1) You've mentioned before that the farmers of the decade didn't really benefit from the boon that was the decade 2) Paved roads were considered a luxury and only available in limited areas at the start of the decade. it would slowly change throughout the decade though. Many roads, especially in rural areas, were nothing more than dirt. When it rained, these dirt streets turned to mud and vehicles would get stuck. The US highway system that we see didn't start until the 1930's. Travel between major cities was best done on rails.

[@10ark]

If we don't know our own history, we are doomed to repeat it! I appreciate this counter point also. Very well done! From a new subscriber. Thank you for the work you are putting in!

[@MF-ty2zn]

We know about Hitler and yet it's being repeated here in the USA as we speak.

[@radicalross7700]

When reached for comment about the 1920s, a Mr. Gollum had this to say: "The 1920s was a golden age, a decade of heaven on earth! The music was wonderful! The people were wonderful! Life was wonderful from beginning to end!" Then he said: "No! The 1920s was a horrible, HORRIBLE decade!! All the people were gangster-loving, hooch-swilling, dictator worshipping, horribly racist xenophobes who didn't CARE if they were helping the likes of Al Capone get filthy rich and insanely, obscenely powerful as long as they got their drink on, the selfish boozehounds!

[@ahnraemenkhera7451]

😂😂🤣😂🤣😂😇🤪😜🤣😂

[@michaelmcgee8543]

Every decade has had a problem. There is no such thing as the good old days.

[@tristangossman8910]

I'm from Little Egypt...also Known as Southern Illinois...and yes the Herrin massacre was a tragic event. All of Little Egypt was a wild and almost lawless area. I'd read the books "A Kight of Another Sort" ( a books that follows Charlie Birger and his gang...they even battle the KKK in it) and Bloody Williamson...both great books about this area in the 1920s

[@arnoroorda3201]

Black Thursday October 24 1929! 💀

[@annpino5005]

How about the Florida real estate bubble? Some historians argue that the Wall Street crash of 1929 wouldn't have hit as hard if not for the Florida bubble popping in 1926 and over entirely by 1928. My great-grandparents speculated in the Florida bubble and still hadn't fully recovered by the time of the Wall Street crash.

[@SamuraiAkechi]

1:18 Another couple of events related to Russia: - Basmachi insurgency that lasted until 1930s in muslim areas of ex-Russian Empire, backed by the ex-Young Turks, who have left the Turkey after Kemal took power. - Numerous anticommunist conspiracies involving british intelligence, acts of terrorism and agents crossing polish and finnish border to get to the soviet territory. Two GPU operations were meant to cull the work of opposition, operations "Trust" and "Syndicate-2", both of which later became a material for various spy novels. Also, Iraq rebellion which Churchill wanted to suppress with chemical weapons (but probably never did it because of logistics troubles). Damn, there was so much stuff going on, most of which is forgotten outside of the countries involved.

[@dirkbogarde44]

Like all decades.....it all depends on your situation.

[@cherylschantz9893]

And your location.

[@TransVangal]

You are so well spoken sir, it is a pleasure to hear you narrate these videos😊

[@seamusohoulihan666]

His voice is annoying

[@kidmohair8151]

pick any era in human history, and there is going to be good, and bad, and just plain everyday...

[@spiritualhammer392]

But nothing compares with what we are facing now. The world has never been this populated, ever - not since the last time we got whacked. We keep getting about 10000 years in, then wham - something happens that sends us back to zero. We're way beyond time...

[@kidmohair8151]

@@spiritualhammer392 and to top that we also think, after what? 120 thousand years? that we are the be-all end-all of the evolutionary tale of life on this planet. the dinosaurs with their 120 million year run, laugh at us. bacteria?...well, let's not talk about bacteria.

[@paulsemeraro]

I'm very thankful for this channel. It's one of the best on KZbin.

[@J.M.Chadwick6]

As always, an excellent video. I had no idea that so many "unpleasant situations" occurred in the 1920's. This certainly was a learning experience for me.

[@aglimmerofhope5321]

Ed Bernays' techniques of "propaganda" may have informed Goebbels' efforts, not to mention the All-Seeing Eye that is modern advertising. 🙁

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

You should do videos on the 30's 40's 50's 60's 70's 80's 90's as well.

[@JSB1882]

That was really well done, and even 100 years later there isn't much of difference with humanity. Some improvements - but not as great as you would have hoped back then.

[@camilelcoyne]

Thank you so much for this video. I appreciate you putting the effort in to balance the good with the bad. It's important that as we learn about these times, that we understand that it really was a mixed bag of good and bad things to contemplate. I appreciate your hard work and dedication in creating and sharing such great info. Thank you.

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

And none of that stupid ''Woke'' crap either.

[@user-wc3qj5mu1i]

one word especially for Americans prohibition

[@MarcusZepeda]

I really enjoyed your video. I myself love educating people on the Victorian and Edwardian era and there was good things and bad things that happened during that time. But I mostly love the fashion and the houses

[@louisehaley5105]

If only we could combine the artistic, architectural, literary and musical aesthetic of past centuries with the scientific, medical and social reforms of the present one.

[@genebigs1749]

I love your videos, and like you, I've always been fascinated by the 1920s. However, I disagree with your assessment that those life insurance ads were exploitive. A man who has a family should always have life insurance. It's irresponsible to not protect your family in the event you pass away prematurely. Otherwise, great video as usual!

[@tadams1227]

All decades had some degree of suckativity with some exception to the 1980's because of the music imo was awesome! And your channel rocks!

[@RevLeigh55]

The 70s music was better. IMO.

[@timmcquerry6068]

"Suckativity" HA I LOVE IT ❤️! I shall abscond with that word. Thank you 😊

[@G.L.McCarthy-vr1oe]

Nice job, very even handed! Well done.

[@alandesouzacruz5124]

Good counterpoint to the previus video

[@megansfo]

I'm 74, and my parents were teenagers during the 1920s. I've always been interested in that era even though some of it was very dark. I DO remember the late 1950s though, dull and dreary most of it. My parents had awful money problems, and my college educated mother hated being a housewife. Definitely not the perfect paradise many make it out to be. Not at all!

[@khutchinsoncpa1]

If you have ever had to help a family member with children whose spouse died with no life insurance, you would know that perhaps it is not exploitative to point out that the aftermath can be very difficult, and much more so back in those times before any sort of government-sponsored social safety net.

[@ruthm.6071]

Very few people profile the darker side of the 1920's.....Thank you for this well-thought out look at some of the negative things that happened in that decade.....Too often YT shows history in a snark way, as though the people were hopelessly primitive. I am glad that you gave us an honest look

[@GatochanBolivia]

This is just one of the reasons a like your channel bro :3 YOU DONT COVER THE BAD THINGS and DONT EXAGERATE THE GOOD ONES :,) thanks for telling the truth and your opinions, are very welcomed in this world full of madness and confusion.

[@pgronemeier]

EVERY decade has SUCKED! We in 2024 can pick and choose from the past....BECAUSE IT'S THE PAST! I'm in my 60's. The 70's/80's might have been cool for some of us. OR SUCKED for others. I knew people who lived in the 20's. Including my Grandparents who were born in 1896/1902. They were from Chicago. But they did NOT go out every night and dance the Charleston. In fact, they listened to WLS Barn Dance music. As WE know now, the 30' SUCKED. The 40's Had the war that NO ONE knew what was going to happen. EVERY 'decade' had it's good points. Bad points. 2024 might SUCK. But we don't know what 2025 will look like. Maybe people in 2100 will have an opinion. LoL

[@sawtooth808]

You forgot to mention The Spanish Flu pandemic in your thumbnail which was prevalent throughout the 1920’s up to The Great Depression.

[@t-mar9275]

The Spanish Flu is generally associated with 1918-1919, as that is when it inflicted the highest mortality rates. By 1921 the influenza rate in the USA was lower than pre-pandemic levels and it stayed that way throughout the rest of the decade.

[@mitchsmeykal22]

History doesn’t repeat but it does rhyme.

[@danholm4952]

just like the 'war on drugs'

[@louisehaley5105]

Global instability - scary how everything is cyclical, we’re still dealing with this problem a hundred years later.

[@fs357mag]

Comprehensive and well written & presented. 👍🏻

[@honodle7219]

That was really a pleasure to watch. Well done! It's enlightening to see and fully recognize that we today are not so different from them, then.

[@e.jenima7263]

Two things that sucked in the 1920's the insane crime rate ......many like to think of the 20's 30's 40's and 50's as the good old days when you could trust everybody and leave your front door open at night but that was a part of the problem . Many murders and sex crimes were committed in these decades because killers rapists and molesters saw thy could easily take advantage of innocent peoples trust and rose tinted world view. Pair that with often incompetent police work and its a criminals heyday. My doctor brought up a good one .....up intil the late 1930's when anti biotics were discovered you had a lot of illness. half the men in the USA had STD's and a simple virus or infection could still kill or severely disable you. Illnesses like Strep throat my doc told me was actually the No 1 Killer in the USA until anti biotics came about and she said there are literally thousands and thousands of reported cases of Strep each year and thousands of deaths! Really makes the whole Covid 19 thing look like bullshit.

[@t-mar9275]

According to government statistics, the biggest cause of death in the 1920s was heart disease, with the mortality rate increasing steadily throughout the 1920s.

[@JamesIrwins78s]

I’ve been enjoying your videos, and it’s always good to point out both sides of the coin. On a different note, though, I would like to request that you possibly start listing all of the songs you’re using for the backgrounds of these videos.

[@misterbacon4933]

Very informative episode!

[@hahalol1452]

enjoying the aesthetics of a time period is only acceptable if you are willing to acknowledge the bad aspects of the period.

[@myotherlefthand4880]

Good job.

[@bioLarzen]

Good one. I just wish it was not almost exclusively US. So many things happened in this decade around the world, other than the rise of fascism, that would fit the topic perfectly...

[@Ratteler]

All that is necessary for evil to triumph is that good men believe they can get away with doings nothing.

[@MrPeabody_here]

Great video. Like to see the more original content from you.

[@marikkelaszlo3355]

I always keep thinking of the radium girls case whenever I think of the 1920s 💔

[@MrEab2010]

dark as it was, the scare tactics over life insurance did help lead to Social Security a decade later. Overlooked was the fact that many black and white neighborhoods were integrated until redlining was introduced under FDR. Blackface, though popular with some groups, was considered distasteful by many people, including whites, which lead to its decline.

[@SweetChicagoGator]

Doomsday era videos can be made of any era, not just the 1920s ! ☹️ BTW, life insurance is blood money, so why are u surprised by the psychology of the sales?!

[@ShinigamisBlade]

He's balancing out his video that talks about how great the decade was. Seeing history in rose tinted glasses is dangerous and disingenuous and does a disservice to the people who lived through it

[@justju0rd]

1920s weren’t perfect, i’d still rather live in the current ‘20s than the 1920s lol.

[@justju0rd]

@@ShinigamisBlade I 100% agree

[@louisehaley5105]

19:01 - perhaps those commercials for life insurance were based on the unfortunate reality of what could really happen to a family if the main breadwinner passed away - especially if there was no social network to support them. How far removed from scare tactics used in advertising today ?

[@e.jenima7263]

I think it would be interesting to think about what the world would be like today if the First world war had never happend.

[@thetooginator153]

I’m in my sixties, so I have seen a lot of technological change. I suspect radio and telegraph may have amplified the interest in scandalous trials. Before the twenties, I suspect that it took much more effort to sensationalize national events that directly affected very few people.

[@dave3657]

I have magazines dating back to the 1800’s. I have found that there never was “good old days”. There was something that sucked thru out time. And going forward there will be even more of the same. The more things change, the more they stay the same. BTW,great channel. 👍🏻

[@serinachilders74]

Are you sure you are not talking about the 2020's, sounds like history is replaying itself.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

My Grandparents were young in the 20s, My Grandmother talked about smoking and drinking in speakeasies, but when I knew Her She was in Her 70s and She lived to 85, but She had those memories of the prohibition years!

[@daguard411]

Thank You!

[@rondesantis8618]

It seems like there are a lot of similarities between the 1920's and 2020's.

[@newforestpixie5297]

on screen advertising in domestic situations nowadays is more overt & nearly always conveys an almost surreal idyll not just the handsome families or couples but the product always has to be seen in state of the art expensive kitchens, or perfectly neat rooms , super tidy driveways & gardens - even modest homes appear brand new & spotless . Of course the product can’t be associated with decay but this generic perfection surely plants the subliminal seed of dissatisfaction with viewers own surroundings & for every aspirant whom can ‘smarten’ things up there’s twice as many whom cannot. Shiny World Syndrome is bad for everyone living real lives in real places & the prevalence of these endless portrayals of unreal daily living must bear some responsibility for the increasing levels of dissatisfaction or depression ..

[@zero_bs_tolerance8646]

Thank you.

[@goodforyou3000]

The 2020s are starting to look like the 1920s.

[@spiritualhammer392]

It's going to look like the 1940s by next year.

[@petebondurant58]

@@spiritualhammer392 I hear that by one side or the other during every presidential election year.

[@williammurray1341]

Not the infant and young child death rates? My mother is the youngest of six. Her three siblings born in 1920s didn't live past 5.

[@justju0rd]

I’d still rather live in the 2020s than the 1920s. But the 1920s was definitely an interesting decade to look back on in retrospect.

[@StuftBanana]

These are the good old days of the future.

[@t-mar9275]

You'd definitely have a significantly longer life expectancy today, than compared to a century ago.

[@dhm7815]

America did a mini-Vietnam in Nicaragua in 1924. We even fought it with short take-off aircraft which was as innovative as our helicopters in 'Nam. We eventually declared a victory and withdrew from the jungle war. As soon as we left the political side we found intolerable took over anyway.

[@yelloworangered]

There is something else about the 1920s that is more subtle. Women, especially young women, are viewed as having only good in the increased freedom given them. But while some girls enjoyed snuggling with their boy in the backseat of a fliver, the cars also created private spaces in which women (who had been strictly chaperoned before) could be pressured for sex or even raped. It also was true that the other sorts of freely dating situations might come with an implicit "contract" for sex or fondling if the man spent money on the date. And the low salaries that department store girls, secretaries, etc., in the few jobs that women were allowed to have made dinners out and other economic lifts very appealing. Unplanned pregnancies for single women meant a permanent sentence as used goods and cheap and easy values. How many women sought an abortion because of this permanent stigma? How many men walked away from the women whom they had impregnated?

[@jahirareyes1102]

To, be honest this is true but many women who were with the men, dating these men were their fiancés not just random men, but even in the 1920s chaperoning continued and was quite common and done.But,some of the things you stated iam sure could have occured in some cases.

[@t-mar9275]

They said the same thing in the late 1890s when the bicycle boom allowed young women increased freedom and the opportunity to get away from supervised situations.

[@jahirareyes1102]

@@t-mar9275 But,i mean anything could happen,who knows what happened in that time,guess you would have to look for sources from the time period .

[@cashflowhustles]

Two words: Al Capone. And one more word: Prohibition

[@gumvro9985]

This is my favorite video of yours

[@DonauweIIe]

the 1920s in the u.s.a. were ALOT better than what is in the u.s.a. now.

[@zakthedestroyeranak5416]

History is repeating itself...

[@Lou.B]

Excellent!

[@charleskleesattel6477]

Excellent post, as usual. It would be interesting for us to see you take an event from the 20's and see how it played out in the future. The Volstead Act is an easy one. But the ban on Japanese immigration and it's effect on the Japanese plan to bomb Pearl Harbor is interesting. Also, many things you touched on in this video are emotional/economic policies that come up from time to time. I'm sure you wouldn't want to get into modern politics, but it is interesting to see the commonality between the 'American First' movement of the 20's and the MAGA movement in present day. (the ban on alcohol and the anti-abortion movement are an interesting comparison) I suppose the underlying concept is that it's very simple to solve a cultural problem, but very very difficult to create a solution that doesn't create more problems in it's wake. Anyway, thanks for having a interesting channel. I look forward all your posts.

[@user-pu6jw2tk3f]

Yup no cellphone, or microwaves, bikinis

[@48038]

& artificial matrix of family friends relationship backed by democratic illusion of governance...

[@julianhermanubis6800]

Sounds great. Do we have the time machine built yet?

[@user-pu6jw2tk3f]

@@julianhermanubis6800 lick me

[@kenlodge3399]

Obscene Income Inequality was all the rage throughout the 20s at the same time consumer credit fueled the decade, symbolized as the "Roaring 20s". Individual credit propped up notions of a burgeoning middle class that in hindsight was dubious. Which along with all the newcomer involvement in the stock market based on speculation buying can be said to have caused the Great Depression (when more likely was the Short Selling of stocks by the Wall St. Bankers). The "Proclaimed" first act of, Domestic Terrorism, in Bath, MI, 1927 was the act of a lone madman not affiliated with any group, organization, political or social cause. Boy, I can only vaguely recall a bunch of episodes of Attention Seekers engaging in fatal feats, but as the memory gets clearer cannot say if was the 20s, or were due not to Attention Seekers but simply tragic incidents that the people got 15 minutes of Fame due to Radio, hmm?

[@debbiem9218]

I believe every century had its good and bad. Today's good and bad are probably a little worse then they were back then because of all the advances we have had in science etc. Yes technology can make things better but it can also make them worse and cause them to happen a lot faster. I love your channels, thanks for you wonderful site, I'm sure glad I came across it.

[@track1949]

My grandparents were young then. They had not too long ago moved away from the Jim Crow south. They had young children ( my parents). I don't think it sucked for them...at least not until 1929.

[@Wheelchairspeeder]

Interesting fact about bernaise he was Sigmund Freuds nephew so he would know about the effective and exploitive uses for psychology especially with advertising and selling people things

[@davidanthony4845]

@janerkenbrack3373 A huge hit to the Klan was Indiana Grand Cyclops D.C. Stephenson's trial for the death of his young sectetary Madge Oberholtzer. His sexual assault included so much severe biting that she had contracted fatal sepsis. She was devastated and attempted suicide by poison. This was just pre-penicillin. She was able to testify lucidly right up to death. Stephenson lost his huge political power in Indiana, of course; he had only enough pull left to beat the death penalty. The Indiana Klan never recovered, and the national organization, as the graph shows, took a nose-dive.

[@sheilaholmes8455]

The 20’s sucked for Blacks all the way around.

[@milascave2]

Some people believe that the bombing of Perl Harbor was motivated, at least in part, by the Immigration limits it places in the USA on immigrants from Japan. They felt humiliated by that.

[@randywatts6969]

The racism then, was terrible.

[@Guminyourhair]

All the same issues exist in this era as it has in the last as it will in the next.

[@CrossOfBayonne]

Furthermore if you were born in this decade you would then come of age during the Depression and then World War II being drafted and enlisting fighting in either Europe or the Pacific. World War 2 is the sequel to World War 1 and would be far worse

[@sarah3796]

Why did that man blow up a school??

[@michaelquinones-lx6ks]

There were good and bad points throughout history.

[@ingibingi2000]

This 20s sucks too

[@julianhermanubis6800]

I think, considering the rise of the USSR and some of the communist agitation in Europe during the era, plus with some of the issues the U.S. had recently experienced with terrorism by other leftists, the "Red Scare" is fairly understandable. I'll be honest, the only two things on your "bad" list that really bother me would be the rise of the dictators and racial violence and, to some extent, xenophobia (but I don't think this is unique to the 1920s and is more complicated than presented). I suspect I am more to the right of you politically, however.

[@willies330]

👍👍🫡

[@MGood-ij1hi]

So , was that the America that people had in mind when they want to make America great again?

[@DEEANNA88]

I totally disagree. I don’t think the 1920s sucked at all. Besides the great crash and the beginning of the great depression into the 1930s, I think the 1920s was booming in terms of music and fashion. The men look very handsome and the women very beautiful. People seem to be fit and healthy. In fact, if I had a choice to live in a decade, I would probably choose the 1920s.

[@tombouie]

Well-Done, the good-old-days weren't that good after-all.

[@jamessalzman4369]

Maybe, but the 1920s were great in European cities like Paris.