Defunctland: The Fair That Changed America

4:20 Anyone else think that the man in the upper middle picture looks kinda like Andrew Ryan from Bioshock?? I know it's a coincidence, but the fact that Art Deco started here makes it even funnier too!! 🙃🙃

every time you mention it takes place in 1933 i cringe a little harder

22:15 is that thee meow wolf??

17:01 what's dunkey doing here

0:45
My goodness, this line got me so good and I'm not even a minute into the video

15:27 wait… that airplane thing is REAL? I remember watching a Donald Duck cartoon where he got into a plane mounted just like that at a fair of some kind. I had no idea it was based on a real thing. That looks absolutely terrifying!

15:56 “to scale” killed me😂😂

We would be better going back to back breaking work in an agrarian society rather than pursuing the deceptive “industry” and the evil “science” that entices people w longer life spans, better health and nutrition and other deceptive benefits.

It's really funny that the oil company had animatronic dinosaurs, but it's also unfortunately inaccurate. Oil is primarily from the deposited dead algae from massive algae blooms in the prehistoric oceans. The algae bloom, suck up all the oxygen from the water in the process, die, then get deposited onto the ocean floor to be covered up with sediment and compressed over time as more and more sediment piles on top. Eventually the crushing pressure and time convert them into oil and natural gas.

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8:20 "industry loved this" lolol.

For those keeping score: the solution was in fact FDR's "Civilian Conservation Corp": a center-left tactic of hiring millions of unskilled and uneducated Americans at disproportionate wages, and having them construct parks, roads, buildings, utilities, and various other public projects. The stimulus to low-income people led to economic boon, and the high federal cost quickly paid for itself as GDP shot back up (along with property values, the international value of a dollar, and general moral in the states). The US govt actually never even officially ended this program, but folded into the military during WW2, which is why we have such generous military compensation relative to the requirements of acceptance. The result is a huge proportion of our budget spent on military, but unlike the public projects and infrastructure made by the CCC, the citizens don't get to see too much of the benefit of this program.

(And if you're still keeping score from before: Herbert Hoover is largely blamed for causing the Great Depression in no small part due to his extreme TARIFFS )

this one thinks we should bring back attempts at the raw optimism and technological progressivism like the worlds fairs

Honestly I really do relate to Great Depression America, I also don’t want to look at ads from big companies that are ruining our lives but it’s eVERYWHERE

*industrial overproduction caused The Great Depression*
The Fair: "Industry is gonna save mankind!!!"

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Is there anything that I could do to stop thinking about killing my self?