Incredible but True

"On the surface, the 1920s were joyous years - the years of the Sunday drive and the big football weekend, the raccoon coat [compare today's platform shoes, nose rings, tattoos], the speakeasy [compare today's Starbucks (legal) and drug hangouts (illegal)], Rudolph Valentino and Clara Bow [compare Johnjohn Kennedy and Princess Di] and Lindbergh [compare today's highflying Bill Gates] - when, as Fitzgerald wrote, 'The parties were bigger...the pace was faster...the shows were broader, the buildings were higher, the morals were looser and the liquor was cheaper.'

"But this was only on the surface. The '20s were also a time when tens of millions of Americans - colored people, rural folk and intellectuals - felt profoundly alienated from the society in which they lived. Looking back on the decade, the nation seemed close to falling apart [cf. today's widening income gap] - not sharply and violently and painfully as in 1861, but fissuring and crumbling like some of the great empires of ancient times - a glittering surface covering deep fissures." (Life History of the U.S., vol. 10, p. 119.) "There wasn't any *work at home; there wasn't much work anywhere. My ambition was to somehow get to California. Everyone thought California was the place to go in the early 1920s." Bertha Parker of Arkansas, quoted in Lesley Poling-Kempes' The Harvey Girls: Women Who Opened the West (Marlowe & Co.: New York, 1991), p.69.



Lets face it.. The Economy isn't coming back. Right now we are in a period of purification time. This is where death and birth are in extremes. The Death of Elitism and the Birth of Survival will prevail. We were all drinking the kool aid and now those who continue to drink it will soon realized its been spiked.

If your in denial i must advise you that if you say that the 90's were the return of the roaring 20's which many experts are then what took so long? Even though we got out of the depression in the 1940's we then entered renewal time. This is where we got back to basics and back to principals. The horrors of war made everyone realize that being pure and love where most important. Artists have been calling for a love revolution for a few years now but artists are always 10 to 20 years ahead of the rest of the world in thinking...

After renewal time ran its course, Optimism sets in and the degradation of people begins to erode the foundations and principals. However, the return of roaring 20's were then met with with the fact that an ever increasing population and complexity in markets made it difficult to balloon the illusorary bubble of prosperity, thus the 90's were the return.

I don't know about you but i was in high school during the 90's. I had raging good times but unfortunately i wasn't rich. I graduated college in 2004 and have been working in the film industry which is one of the hardest industries in the world to find stable income. Everyone dreams of days like the roaring 20's where the party never ends and the money never stops flowing no matter how often you seem to screw things up.

However, for the illusion of the 20's to return again i should warn you that at the rate of population growth you could be looking forward to the year 2150. Enough time for purification time, renewal time, optimism time, degradation time, and the complexity of the system to run its course.

For all you people who enjoyed the prosperity of the 90's I hope you enjoyed it. I hope you got to taste the fruits of your labor. However, people are dying, people are becoming sheep who have lost their way, and the fate of the existence of the human race is ever increasingly becoming sown into the hands of a few people at the top whose family's created capitalism way back in greek and roman times.

The Great Gatsby is a novel by the American author F. Scott Fitzgerald. First published on April 10, 1925, it is set in Long Island's North Shore and New York City during the summer of 1922.

The novel chronicles an era that Fitzgerald himself dubbed the "Jazz Age." Following the shock and chaos of World War I, American society enjoyed unprecedented levels of prosperity during the "roaring" 1920s as the economy soared.



At the same time, Prohibition, the ban on the sale and manufacture of alcohol as mandated by the Eighteenth Amendment, made millionaires out of bootleggers and led to an increase in organized crime. Although Fitzgerald, like Nick Carraway in his novel, idolized the riches and glamor of the age, he was uncomfortable with the unrestrained materialism and the lack of morality that went with it.



One of the main symbols of the film was the Valley of ashes - the downfall of the American dream. Those of you who have been clutching on the American Dream since the 20's... please realize you've been living in a dream world.

So where do we go from here. Purification time is always a fork in the road. Either we expand our horizons or we destroy ourselves. Anyone still drinking the kool aid are clearly unwilling to change and presumably will become bait for the corporations controlled by the government. Countries, Cities, and Towns will become feeding grounds. Incredible but True.