How Traditionalism and Modernism Clashed Against the New Waves of the Roaring Twenties Among other nations, America remained intact following the Great War and its rampant pattern of destruction and economic hardships. America emerged to new levels of consumerism and prosperity, and with this prosperity, new modern industries emerge such as automobiles, tourism, and large-scale production; to the demise of traditional and now inefficient industries such as agriculture. Respectively, these new industries began to dominate cities and created vast amounts of jobs and wealth, a rise in cheaper consumer products such as the automobile, Americans began to be able to purchase more, go further, listen to the radio, and in general develop a wider reach of culture with several new means of receiving and submitting ideologies and ideas A major component of the new modern culture came with expressive work such as Hollywood, radio, and newspaper – creating the new city culture popping with flamboyant new-age women and the fast life that Hollywood portrayed; Modernists. …show more content…
A quote from the International Reform Bureau as quoted by Stillman in his book ‘The Roaring Twenties’ shows the ‘foul pictures, corrupt literature, leprous shows, gambling slot machines, saloons, and Sabbath breaking … We are trying to raise saints in Hell.” mentality that these traditionalists were fighting against (Stillman, 2015). This attempt of social progressivism was not as effective as conceived, black markets and gangs could now develop and make tax-free profit off alcohol and could often result in violent attacks or dominant financial and political control over key cities such as