Cycles of Moral Decay
Here's what AI says about the moral decay of the Roaring Twenties:
“The main moral decays of the “Roaring Twenties” included the widespread disregard for Prohibition laws, leading to a rise in organized crime, a loosening of sexual mores with the “flapper” culture, a growing emphasis on consumerism and materialism, and a perceived decline in traditional values like hard work and family stability, often seen as a clash between urban and rural morals, with the cities being viewed as more decadent.”
I’d guess this era was highly formative of the culture that emerged in Post WWII. To bring this into Strauss-Howe theory, similar to how the spiritual revolution phase II comes to maturity in IV, the decay in IV becomes the foundation of the next phase I.
When people talk about techno-accelerationism, they’re often talking about GDP or Moore’s law, but there’s barely consideration in the specific social fabric that might emerge. I also don’t think we have a theory of collective virtue formation in an open market.