[keiferski]

The moral views of the average person circa 1930 are very different from one today.

But I read old books for their interesting stories, viewpoints on life, literary quality, etc. – not to tut-tut someone for having different moral views than me, a hundred years later.

So it doesn't bother me. Like I said, I really cannot understand the mindset of someone that reads a book from another era/civilization and focuses on critiquing the author's ethics. Just feels like such a limited way to interact with the world.

[saagarjha]

Please point to the things being described in that comment and explain what the average person in 1930 would have felt about them.

[breezybottom]

I don't see it. The 1930s weren't that long ago, there are still people alive who lived through them. If you were talking about ancient Egypt, you might have a point.

[keiferski]

The 1930s had radically different opinions on race, gender, religion, and a host of other things as compared to today.

[breezybottom]

Define "radical"

[keiferski]

The world has entirely different values today than circa 1930. This is...obvious? Read a book or Wikipedia page? I don't know what else to tell you.

[breezybottom]

The world doesn't have values, people do. And many of them are the same.

[NooneAtAll3]

it's usually inappropriate to feed a troll, but I'll just say "olympic gold champion was congratulated by literally Adolf Hitler, but not his own country the Unite States - because he was black"

[watwut]

You had your fascists and you had your anti-fascists where antifascists were blamed for what fascists did.

[achenet]

I recommend you read the book "Pimp" by Iceberg Slim, about a Black America in the early/mid 20th century.

Personally speaking, I found the book very 'awe-inspiring'/it made me go 'wow' a bunch, because I found the author's experience so completely different from my own :)

[pixelatedindex]

As a brown person in the US, I certainly would have felt a difference between then and now…

[breezybottom]

The United States isn't the entire world.

[smogcutter]

It is, however, the setting of On the Road.