Artists (painters, playwrights, film and TV show creators and directors, etc.) quietly synthesize important social, technological and political trends before they become obvious to the general public.
Paying attention to artists and their work provides an important foundation for understanding today’s world through a unique lens
The easy parallel between the 1920s and our 2020s is economic and technological. The more important connection runs deeper and into the human conditions of fear, identity, and the habit of reaching for a scapegoat when the world changes too fast.
Being born in the early 1960's, my first memories of "news that mattered" came from Walter Cronkite who was the anchorman for the CBS Evening News during an epic run that lasted from 1962 to 1981, which was also was an extraordinarily volatile period in US and world history.