Wednesday, March 3, 2010

2010 sucks lets go back to the 1920's





lets just put it out there.
i am in love. with 1920's.
if i were to go back in some trippy time machine,
without a doubt i would be in the roaring 20's.
why? cuse everything was new and changing and exiting.

women were reforming how the world thought about them.
to become more masculine they all cut their hair short in bobs and wore their boobs flat.
they wore short dresses and put on make-up and swore in public.
which was a big deal.
they danced and jazz spots. jazz itself was new. everything was new.
this was the time of the harlem renaissance, and blacks paved so many roads through their music.
no one thought about the legacy they were leaving behind. only about the moment they were in now.
and thats what i love about it.
of course this isn't all it was about. i could hardly describe it in a couple sentences.
i could spend forever.

i remember i was watching a video in my mod civ class about the 1920's.
the kid behind me snored and my friend quietly took mandatory notes.
but i was so caught up in watching this boring intellectual video.
and old woman was talking about growing up in the 1920's.
she said, "flappers knew how to have fun, but they were classy about it. but not the vamps.
they didn't care what anyone thought about them".
they were just like the sluts and whores of 2010. but i swear, something was different about it.

every era has something interesting to say about it:
the 20's.
the 30's.
the 40's.
the 50's.
the 60's.
the 70's.
the 80's.
and what then?

when we explain to our kids what was so cool about the times we live in, what will we say? absolutely nothing.
2010 sucks lets go back to the 1920's.

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