Happy New Year, 1922

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3 min readJan 3, 2022
A New Year’s cartoon from 100 years ago

This century is echoing last century, which sucks. A pandemic in the teens, a roaringly unequal 20s, followed by a big financial crash, and fascism waiting in the wings. As Marx said, history repeats, first as tragedy, then as farce. As the Rocky Horror sang, let’s do the time warp again.

I’ve been reading a lot about last century because, as they say, those that don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it. They should…

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Indrajit (Indi) Samarajiva is a Sri Lankan writer. Follow me at www.indi.ca, or just email me at indi@indi.ca.