Culture of the 20th century

>>1893797
It hasn't always been like this and it's happening because the 20th century was like the freeway of centuries in that it propelled humanity 1000 years into the future in a single century. Nobody has ever experienced as rapid social/economic/political/technological progress as those in the 20th century, it's completely unheard of and totally unique to our era.

much better record keeping, especially visually.

Cameras and mass consumerism.

Go to a poor country in the 20th century and you'll notice a peasant dressed the same way in the 1960s as he did in the 1920s.

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>>1893797
It's funny to think how future generations are going to portray the 20th century as a homogeneous time period the way we do with medieval or Victorian periods. Braveheart had all the Scots wearing kilts even though that didn't happen until 400 years after the time period. A movie about the Titanic made in the year 2500 could have people dressed like hippies and talking about WWII and most people wouldn't notice it's inaccurate.

>>1894024

We're not too far from the point of information overload, we may already be there. The amount of digital information we produce is already staggering, especially scientific and government data.

Will be interesting to see how future historians will deal with it.

>>1894066
Meh. We'll have robots storing information and easier for us to research it.

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>>1894024
1950s nostalgia has been an industry ever since the end of the 1950s. We have puffed it up into something else.

>>1894024
I wonder what they'll think of the 21st century. The year 2000 has a ring to it, obviously.

>>1893797
Part of it seems to be naming. The 00s and 10s are awkward to name, nobody seems to settle on one. I say "zeroes" and "tens" but "noughties" is totally cringeworthy. I feel like we'll be remembered for terrorism, the internet and gay rights more than anything.

>>1896276
>coontz

>>1894147
>Easier for us to research it

The more information we pile up and the easier for us to research all this information will only cause this information to be neglected or cherrypicked.

>>1893797
>Why does it seem like every decade of the 20th century, starting with the 1920s, has had it's own specific cultural identity?
not really. It depends where you look. but there were many different artistic/culture streams within a few years/decades in the 19th,18,17th... century.
also
>Culture of the 20th century
>post amerifat centric 21th century politics picture
fuckoff

>>1896276 #
why is there so much effort put into painting the 1950s as a horrible, dystopian decade when none of its features sjws hate the most (women being baby factories and black people being segregated) are even unique of it? does watching reruns of leave it to beaver and the Andy griffith show really trigger people that much

>>1893797
The 20th century seems so diverse because it's our recent memory and we have a lot of detailed information about it.
One can separate 1980 from 2010 with ease.

Meanwhile, the 1700-1800 period probably seems like one stereotypical era with little detail, where people wore wigs and tricorne hats and there were monarchies and maybe something about Mozart.
But a person from early 1800s could probably separate 1780 from 1810.