Paul FairieA Brief History of We Are Raising a Generation of Wimps
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If you enjoy these threads, you'll enjoy the book I'm writing (almost finished a complete draft!).
All about our repeated complaints (nobody wants to work anymore! men today are too feminine!), our tendency to blame everything bad on anything new (jazz! bicycles!) and all the other weird and interesting things (Cronk!) we put in our newspapers.
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Iivana Lemmetyinen@paulisci I once went through a week of a single newspaper (Helsingin Sanomat, the biggest one in Finland) for a week in 1936.
That was hilarious. There was discussion whether technology will take away jobs or create new jobs, complaints how the police won't investigate bicycle thefts etc.
My favourite was that a Soviet spy ring was caught in Vienna, and Soviet embassy said that the arrested were in the country only as private persons.