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I could be wrong, but my understanding is that people were generally pretty optimistic in the early 1900s (before WW1 obviously). Everyday applications for elec
by NeoBasilisk 7y ago
I could be wrong, but my understanding is that people were generally pretty optimistic in the early 1900s (before WW1 obviously). Everyday applications for electricity were rapidly changing daily life for people.
- snagglegaggle 7y agoThere is a good chance the optimism was related to economic opportunity from the die-off of humans from the war. Similar trends in societal change (not the contents themselves, but the trends of the changes) can be seen in post-plague Europe. Suddenly human capital was more valuable.
- dredmorbius 7y agoYou had then (as now) several major trends. The progressivists were modernists promoting modernism -- technology and rationality (along with a whole host of jingoistic thinking). A principle response was the fundamentalist movement, back to fundamentals, especially of religion, and against science and technology, most especially evolution. See the Fundamentalist-Modernist Controversy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist–Modernist_controversy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalist–Modernist_contr...