Future Universal Histories

FUTURE UNIVERSAL HISTORIES
Modernist theme:
Imagine our time seen from 1920, Europe after La Grande guerre
Welcome mass electricity and socialites on cocaine
The Roaring Twenties reverberating from America
With radio commercials for automobiles
Art Deco beaming back, robing every lady, her rooms and cities
She votes, she works and is sexually awakened by Dr. Sigmund Freud
As the New York skyline rises with the
Empire State and Chrysler Buildings
Jazz booms from Nouvelle-Orléans
Young couples Lindy Hop their way up
The Weimar Republic in Germany, Dada in Berlin and Vienna
Followed by the murder of Rosa Luxemburg in 1919
The maiden of Socialism leads the workers towards the new dawn
The Proprietors of Red labour the Third International
Prussian theme:
We’re the Wilhelmine Combattants of 1913
Prussian Burschen aspiring to Scars of Fame
Eyes und Nase covered, now let the Swords fly
The sweet Folly of stitching gushing Wunden
Drunk Students in Burschenschaft Uniforms
Fighting the Mensur für no Grund at all
The Jahrhundert ahead shall ridicule our Honour
Lach at our Pride in Vaterland und King