Michael Malice

Even now, on Wall Street, there was a bomb that went off, I think, in the 1920s.

And the shards of shrapnel are still in the J.P.

Morgan building, I believe.

Well, the thing that was so interesting back then is there was a woman named Mabel Dodge Lujan, and she ended her days in Taos, New Mexico.

She founded an artist colony.

And she had an apartment on 9th Street and 5th Avenue in Manhattan, a chattel salon.

And everyone got together and talked.

And you'd have Emma Goldman, who's an anarchist, Margaret Sanger, who invented Planned Parenthood and advocated for birth control.

And you'd have the people from the Wobblies, the hardcore labor unions.

And everyone kind of – Edsel Mencken didn't attend, but he was friends with them all.

So there was this very weird –

with the birth of modernism in art and in kind of modernist thinking, there was this idea of like, all right, this was the first time where you could be intellectual as a class, where there really was this space for people who are thinkers.

And they just sat around being like, all right, what are we gonna do with ourselves?

And you had it in modern art.

You had it in literature.

You had it in politics.

So it was a very exciting time where people were like, all right, everything is now on the table.

What are we going to do with this?

And they very much were aware that this was a break with the pre-industrial revolution kind of farmer labor era.

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