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Intergenerational Torture

Since the dawn of civilization, each generation has handed hard-won knowledge down to the next. This fact may seem glaringly obvious--and in any other age it would be--but something unprecedented happened to the West in the 60s. The parents of generations X and Y collectively decided not to pass on…
June 23, 202124 Comments
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Fantasy World of Cardboard

Talk to enough Millennials and Zoomers, and before long the conversation will turn to their favorite pop culture brands. Discussing these brands with them at any length will give you the strong impression that younger generations have a deep affinity for projecting themselves into these properties. Without a doubt, you'll…
June 1, 202114 Comments

Money Isn’t Real

"Money isn't real." That's the advice Fred Jung, played by Ray Liotta, gives his son George in the 2001 crime drama biopic Blow. Though more workmanlike than visionary in its execution and more of a noteworthy mid list film than a classic, Blow has an abundance of wisdom to share about…
May 20, 2021

What Were the 80s Like?

With the final year of the 1980s now thirty-two years in the past, a phenomenon that strikes many members of Generations X and Y as both curious and bittersweet has emerged online. The first Zoomers are now twenty. That means two generations have now reached adulthood with no living memory…
May 20, 2021
Chronology

Chronology

These decades later, 1995's Chrono Trigger stands as the capstone of the 2D JRPG genre. You could argue that Final Fantasy VI, released the year prior, is the better game on aesthetic or technical grounds. But at least in North America, CT marked the end of an era when console…
April 5, 202111 Comments
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Gen Z Blackpilling

As a counterpoint to some of the recent blackpilling about Generation Z, I went back and dug up some data pointing to encouraging trends among Zoomers. Look closely at this chart by Audacious Epigone. Pay particular attention to the generational trends in attitudes toward pornography. "This is terrible!" you may…
March 30, 20219 Comments
Aughts Nostalgia

Aughts Nostalgia

The accepted wisdom among creators in the new counterculture holds that there will be no aughts nostalgia movement as there is for the last decades of the 20th century. Western cultural development stagnated and finally started eating itself circa 1997. Therefore, the lion's share of media products after that point…
March 9, 202131 Comments
A 1980s Loser

A 1980s Loser

... lived like a king by today's standards. Readers over a certain age will remember the house above as the one used for exterior shots of the house from the Fox sitcom Married... with Children. The series chronicled the life and times of Al Bundy, a shoe salesman going through…
February 19, 202121 Comments
Zoomers vs Coomers

Zoomers vs Coomers

A major backlash against the Death Cult is fomenting among Generation Z. Consider the following chart. Look closely at the generational trends in attitudes toward pornography. At first, you may be inclined to lament that more Zoomers want porn to stay legal than any other generation polled. But on closer…
February 8, 20211 Comment
Traditores

Traditores

Going back to the dawn of history, human civilization perpetuated itself in the form of knowledge handed down from one generation to the next. This statement may seem glaringly obvious--and in any other age it would be--but something unprecedented happened in the 1960s in the West.The parents of generations X…
February 1, 202128 Comments