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Laughing at the past.
Laughing at the past
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What is ridiculous? "I shall not today attempt further to define the kinds of material I understand to be embraced within that shorthand description, and perhaps I could never succeed in intelligibly doing so. But I know it when I see it."
-Justice Potter Stewart, Jacobellis v. Ohio, 1964
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Excerpts from A Chapter for Young Women - The First Crisis: “A girl should never get wet feet when she is ‘un-well;’ she should be protected from the wet and cold.” “From the ages of 13 to 17, girls should not study too hard.”
The above is an illustration from a book I own titled The Future (p. 1931), by a man named A.M. Law. Though the drawing is fairly silly, it is not intentionally so - rather it is the author's quite serious attempt at imagining what human civilization will be like in the distant future. The book is what we would now call a work of "retrofuturism".