{"id":436,"date":"2022-05-22T07:48:35","date_gmt":"2022-05-22T07:48:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flawlessdigitalagency.com\/kristo\/?p=436"},"modified":"2026-02-28T17:45:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-28T17:45:24","slug":"why-parents-are-saying-no-to-yes-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/?p=436","title":{"rendered":"Why Parents Are Saying No to Yes Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A quick blog post from April 2020 started things off early, making the prediction that after our pandemic finally ends, we\u2019d have a second Roaring \u201920s. \u201c100 years ago: An election, a virus and a cry from disillusioned youths,\u201d ran a headline in the Washington Post in October for a story drawing suggestive comparisons between the two decades that are separated by a hundred years of history. As we limped into 2021, the comparisons picked up. \u201cThe 1920s Roared After a Pandemic, and the 2020s Will Try,\u201d ran a Fun thoughts aside, however,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fun thoughts aside, however, my \u201chmm\u201d reflex at historical comparisons is strong, and it\u2019s been further honed by the \u201cIs this fascism?\u201d wars of 2016\u201321. At least one historian of the 1920s whom I reached out to for an interview for this piece said that the prediction of a \u201cnew \u201920s\u201d was so strained as to be not worth exploring. Steve LeVine, focusing on points of economic comparison in that piece in Marker, also thought: Probably not. LeVine points out a few key<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The \u201cnew \u201920s\u201d idea might not work\u2014there were a lot more young people in the United States then than now; a reprise of the world-changing inventions and discoveries of the 1920s would be a big surprise to those economists who believe that we have been in an invention dry spell since the 1970s. In his Businessweek piece, Peter Coy largely agrees, writing, \u201cIn all probability
the U.S. will continue to wrestle with \u2018secular<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, let\u2019s get to that fun. A very joyful book to read about the decade is Frederick Lewis Allen\u2019s Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, which Allen\u2014a blueblood journalist and editor at Harper\u2019s\u2014published in 1931. The book chronicles all of the movement and motion that makes the decade sexy, and doesn\u2019t seem to miss a fad. Among the fleeting obsessions Allen catalogs are \u201cthe sudden and overwhelming craze for Eskimo Pie\u201d that made the price of<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I describe the \u201cfun\u201d parts of Only Yesterday because they\u2019re wonderful, but also to make a point about the origin story we\u2019ve learned about the mood of the \u201920s. Looking back at Allen\u2019s work from the vantage point of 1986, historian David M. Kennedy argued that the biggest failing of the book was its lack of historical depth: \u201cRarely did Allen forge an explanatory chain whose links ran back more deeply into the past than 1917.\u201d And indeed, Allen seemed to blame World War I for every ash-covered carpet and scarred dining table. Young people who had been overseas and seen so much blood were not ready to conform, Allen wrote:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Allen is also really good at describing parties\u2014or, at least, the ones the middle class and upper class attended. The historian wrote about how women taking up smoking had \u201cstrewed the dinner table with their ashes, snatched a puff between the acts, invaded the masculine sanctity of the club car, and forced department stores to place ornamental ash-trays between the chairs in their women\u2019s shoe departments.\u201d In what I think may be the best passage in the book, Allen described the way 1920s partygoers stepped all over every previous genteel convention:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anyway, let\u2019s get to that fun. A very joyful book to read about the decade is Frederick Lewis Allen\u2019s Only Yesterday: An Informal History of the 1920s, which Allen\u2014a blueblood journalist and editor at Harper\u2019s\u2014published in 1931. The book chronicles all of the movement and motion that makes the decade sexy, and doesn\u2019t seem to miss a fad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Allen is also really good at describing parties\u2014or, at least, the ones the middle class and upper class attended. The historian wrote about how women taking up smoking had \u201cstrewed the dinner table with their ashes, snatched a puff between the acts, invaded the masculine sanctity of the club car.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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    Perhaps by remembering the twenties merely as an enchanting series of novelties or the crude afterthought of a simpler past, we preserve the illusion of our own simple innocence,\u201d mused historian Paula Fass in the introduction to her book The Damned and the Beautiful: American Youth in the 1920s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    A quick blog post from April 2020 started things off early, making the prediction that after our pandemic finally ends, we\u2019d have a second Roaring \u201920s. \u201c100 years ago: An election, a virus and a cry from disillusioned youths,\u201d ran a headline in the Washington Post in October for a story drawing suggestive comparisons between […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":99622,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions\/99622"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radardehoy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}