No, the dream has just started.Ir, Hedonistic periods of epic proportions , usually occur within contexts of events/ The gay nineties followed a period of gross social change, as following the 1848 revolutions, a mere 40 years, and proceeded the great dissolutions beginning in the next century. Likewise, with the 1920’s again ,an age of excess, an orgy of intuitive understanding, that something big is coming. The great big test of all systems of governance, of borders, boundaries, of economic turmoil, culminating in the predictable cataclysm upcoming cataclysm, the 1960’s.
Now we are in a very critical position, and all bets are off. I am not holding my breath for the next big party. But surely, in spite of overall declarations of it being all over, or at least the memory of them as it circumscribes this new randomly emerging world, imply, that these are mere perceptions, flammable and politicized.At the very least the sad refrain, of history repeating it’s self, should be a warning, to the idea, that if new history cannot be manufactured, then, either one needs to be invented, or, it will have to be repeated.