The Roaring ’20s: Part Two

Nostalgia has become a massive trend in our recent pop and social media culture. Whether it was the trend of, “Only ‘90s kids will remember…” or Fox Production’s live renditions of Broadway musicals like “Grease” or “The Rocky Horror Picture Show,” nostalgia has become a factor of our culture and it’s become quite prevalent that sometimes we cannot just leave the past in the past.

Historical documentation has been around since 3,000 BCE, and the point of keeping track of our civilization’s history in order to prevent history repeating itself has been ironed into our day’s age. Nonetheless, who’s to say that history isn’t repeating itself?

“I believe it is repeating itself,” senior Mariana Hernandez said. “Several topics such as racism, slavery, and immigration are things we believed we had improved on, but yet we have slavery issues in Libya, immigration problems in the United States, and police brutality toward people of color.”

There have been countless theories in connection with history repeating itself; for instance, political ties like a leader’s pattern correlating with Adolf Hitler or Andrew Jackson. History repeats itself, even if it’s not always direct and exact, and there are countless instances that are parallel, so how about an entire decade being revisited in the upcoming 2020s.

“I am aware, but I don’t think anything is going to change,” junior Alyssa Johnson said. “Everyone says that if you study history you won’t repeat it but we’re studying history and still repeating it. I don’t think there’s much hope for our ways to change.”

The 1920s was an era of prohibition, partying, and a massive economic boom. The ‘20s are a time that many dream of returning, more so for the drinking and floozy-like societal precedence rather than the racism.

“If the 1920s were to make a comeback, it would probably be similar to the chokers and ‘mom jeans’ trend,” senior Miracle Smith said. “To be fair, there wouldn’t be much that would return. To me the ‘20s isn’t that kind of decade that has that much of an iconic following like other decades.”

The 1920s recurring is nothing something that is so far-fetched; in fact, there are quite a few things to have sprung up in relations to the roaring age. Modern day ‘20s music has already presented itself in the form both electronic jazz (Nu Jazz) and swing, artists like St. Germain or Caravan Palace have implemented those genres into their playbooks.

“If the 1920s were to make a comeback in the the year 2020 I think that besides, possibly, ‘20s inspired fashion, there wouldn’t be much that would be brought back,” senior Garret Gressett said.

The returning of a decade could be a possibility, simply because aspects of other decades have returned in a massive trending wave (ie. overalls and crop tops). Fads like those can either evolve and mold into our modern day or stay as they are, trends. It’s all really just a nostalgic factor. There are some things that we have experienced, or wish we were alive to experience, that are simply trial-and-error and then there are something that are just bound to reoccur, no matter their repetitions in their respective decades.