I suppose the Roaring ‘20s had its goldfish swallowing frat boys but the ‘20s were also an era of uncertainty and disconnection like today. Social media exacerbates stupidity with its moronic promotion of “challenges”. I always am led back to that awful show “Jackass” where smelly teens got a rip roaring laugh out of watching foolish young men do stupid things. One of those foolish young men got older and died from doing one of those stupid things that got such a big laugh from our contemporary young. That was some challenge
Never saw Jackass and actually stopped watching TV from about 1990 to last year when my wife died and it was too horribly quiet at home alone. Only watch detective, police, Criminal Minds and CourtTV now. Plus my hundreds of dvds from MSquad and Mike Hammer onward.
Heard a joke once that a contestant on Jackass made the bad move of stationing himself between Michael Moore and a large buffet table and was seriously injured.