Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1919, where's the booze?

Been thinking about World War I was basically what led us to where we are.  Basically the 19th Century was all building up to that and it was what led to the rest.  There was a sequel a few decades later, leftism was openly trying to destroy everything, there were advances all over, from planes to cars to film, basically everywhere to everything.

I've also been pondering the Spanish Flu aftermath as something that also came out of the Great War and have been meaning to look into the reaction to it.  They didn't look everybody around the world at home and try to destroy the economy.  Leftists at the time would have if they could have but they couldn't.

Of course there were things like the surrealist movement that really got going, I've also assumed that was a reaction to the war.  People just went bonkers afterwards and that was one way of doing it, especially now that new technologies were showing them ways to subtly affect the populous.

Just look at the things that could happen because people weren't locked down and I'm only looking at 1919 because it was the main year of the Spanish Flu.  Babe Ruth set a new season record for home runs and he was just getting started.  Felix the Cat and Koko the Clown started off the animation industry as we know it today.  Charlie Chaplin's film-making had just started the previous year along with the Virus.  The series of Tarzan books were well underway, the Wizard of Oz books were nearing an end and L. Frank Baum was already in Hollywood.  They'd been making movies of those books for a decade.

A lot of new music was released then, even recordings, how innovative.  There was some band called the Louisiana Five playing something called "jazz."  Interestingly, songs like "Alcoholic Blues," "Prohibition Blues" and "Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar" suggest there was a political meaning to popular culture.  Oh right, prohibition was ratified that January.  By an amazing coincidence, women were going around taking about voting at the time.  They'd ban drugs, then get wasted and didn't see any contradiction, nor could anyone getting pussy because of that.  As I said, I think it's all a reaction to World War I but notice how they weren't being ordered to stay in their homes all day and all night.  Monet, Picasso, Duchamp, they were all showing people their new paintings.

Remember, there's a virus going on around the world.  It's horrible.  People are dying.  Any of that ring a bell?  Naturally there were protests and riots, probably not all of them funded by Russia.  Now that sounds familiar given the last year.

And this was just going through a basic look at what happened that year.  I was really tempted to start looking at it day-by-day to see how people were moving around and doing things which they wouldn't have been allowed to do last year because Democrats don't like it.  But as soon as I started January 1, 1919, I saw that it was the day J. D. Salinger was born and that just started me thinking about all the stuff that would result from this year.  It's getting late and that's more than I'm willing to do at the moment, but this is an example of why I've been working on my "History project" and why I think 1919 is one of the crucial years in history.

Now I'll get around to looking up headlines and see what happened today.

Radical Leftist Group Steals Confederate Statue from Alabama Cemetery – Demands Ransom or Statue will Be Destroyed
April 5, 2021

Facebook removes account of Capitol attack suspect and ‘Follower of Farrakhan’
April 2, 2021

Hunter Biden Admits He Smoked Parmesan Cheese After Mistaking It for Crack
April 4, 2021