07-17-2019, 11:22 AM
(07-17-2019, 10:30 AM)Eric the Green Wrote:(07-17-2019, 09:27 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote: What about previous cycles? Were there Lost adventurers as well? I mean, Lost flappers pursued sexual adventures, but I don't think it qualified before the age of AIDS.
What about those guys who barnstormed on airplanes and stood up on the wings? Harold Lloyd who climbed buildings and hung on clocks? Stuff like that in the 1920s. Those who went to Paris for the Jazz Age, and wrote about it and contributed to it. The ones who violated prohibition laws and hung out at speakeasies, and some others who made money as gangsters?
Yes the 1920s look like an adventurous decade
Two cycles ago, the Gilded mostly colonized the Wild West, and the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly was in the same age bracket. But David Livingstone, who mapped the interior of Africa, was a Transcendental.