Inside The Box

I've never seen the name before, but "Soaring Twenties" is a great little label for our times. Besides the play on the original twenties, it has that connection to the universal description of today, that it's the best of times and the worst of times. We had the roaring last decade of (somewhat empty) exuberance in tech, leaving much of the rest of society behind in economic opportunity.

We have built so much useful as well as destructive capabilities in technology and science, yet caused so much damage with social media. Society is still as broken as ever, with people working for the fascist takeover of the government at least based in part on weaponized false claims (freedom through removing your personal choices and library book preferences), millions of hungry people living on the street in the US, terrible health care in the US even though we spend vastly more than others. And the world seems just as close to war as it did in the second and third decades of the 20th century.