Ch.23

In the 1920’s a lot of dramatic changes began. With almost every American owning a car, there was a boom in the demand for Fuel. This is still if not an even bigger demand for fuel today. It is almost weird for someone not to have automobiles that the prices on fuel is getting higher and higher. The creation of assembly lines were also proven to be an effective way of building a corporation like the Ford Motor Company. However, relating back to what Pope Leo has talked about how working in a factory like this diminishes the creativity of workers, the workers at GM were prohibited to even laugh or talk. It just further shows how these big corporations are dehumanizing their workers in order to gain profit. This is a time where we move away from the rural farming ways into urbanization. Supermarkets and department stores replaced how people used to directly grow food for survival and hand sewn clothes. The effect of automobiles became more prevalent as people saw it as a symbol of freedom and communication. I really agree with that. If I didn’t have a car, I would thing that I lost my legs and prohibited me from going to the places that I really want to go with ease by car.  Also because of people owning cars, the use of coal and electricity also increased. I feel like a lot of the problem they faced such as trying to preserve wildlife while trying to further the use of new technology is still present today. For example, to decrease pollution and use of gasoline, we are now trying to use other forms of oil by electricity and solar power rather than gasoline.        

 The interest of celebrities also became more influential in this era. Likewise, we are mostly interested in seemly ordinary Americans who are famous and their private lives. Magazines, radio, and movies about the famous were ways that people can feel as if they can be whatever they want to be and one day achieve that. Today, we look at reality TV and are more than ever involved in the lives of celebrity’s through social media.