Fauxios Exclusive: The 'Jazz Age' Revisited – As Opulence Meets Microbes and Ill-Fitting Futures
By Vivian Holloway 
Washington's latest policy maneuvers, combined with unexpected environmental and technological hurdles, suggest a startling echo of early 20th-century American exuberance, now tinged with a particularly modern malaise.
Washington's latest policy maneuvers, combined with unexpected environmental and technological hurdles, suggest a startling echo of early 20th-century American exuberance, now tinged with a particularly modern malaise.
Why it matters: As the nation grapples with policies designed to redefine labor, natural environments that betray unseen dangers, and technological visions struggling with basic ergonomics, the 'roar' of this modern era increasingly sounds like a desperate whistle in the dark. The question remains whether today’s underlying anxieties will, like their historical predecessors, merely be papered over by the next wave of 'unprecedented' optimism, or finally demand a reckoning with the systemic issues bubbling beneath the surface of our assumed prosperity.
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