H.G. Wells' "Things To Come" : Through The Eyes of its Time
(www.youtube.com)https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CScyJcVSp0g H.G. Wells’ “Things To Come” played much differently in 1936 than it does today. So much so that it offers us an insight into the politics of the period if we can step back from our post-WWII understanding and look at it on its own terms.
The video makes the case that the 1920's and 1930's were just different. Communism, Fascism, and National Socialism were optimistic creeds in ways that cannot now see, separated as were are from those times by the tragic way it all worked out.
