Four Turnings

Strauss-Howe Revisited

Owing to the sizable number of new readers who probably aren't up to speed on the updated generational theory popularized on this blog, I thought this post would make a helpful refresher. If you frequent social media and dissident blogs, it's hard to escape the phenomenon of people getting woke…
November 13, 201910 Comments
The Groyper War

The Groyper War

The Conservative movement's total failure to conserve anything has rightly become the stuff of memes. One reason why Conservatives have proven utterly ineffective at stopping the Left is that Conservatism is really just slow motion Liberalism. It accepts the basic Liberal premise enshrining freedom detached from the good as an…
November 4, 201925 Comments
Marketing Millennials

Marketing Millennials

A comment by author JD Cowan on yesterday's viral post demonstrates the deliberate memory holing of Generation Y in this article from 2001. Here at the turn of the real millennium, trend forecasters and futurists are pondering new ways of cross-marketing to all of America's biggest consumer groups. First there was the…
October 29, 201920 Comments
The Nostalgia Trap

The Nostalgia Trap

Author David V. Steward was gracious enough to invite me on his Writestream last night. The impetus for the episode was this post, which has caused something of a sensation among Generation Y readers. What strikes you most whenever you get Ys to open up and discuss the past is…
October 17, 201945 Comments
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Hope for Gen Y

A commenter on my recent review of definitive Gen Y high school movie Clueless writes: How tied to is gen y. I mean, I've experienced and seen a lot of failure in my life and others. Is it a trait? By what means can it be overcome if it is? I…
July 26, 201941 Comments
Clueless by Design

Clueless by Design

My dual review of Heathers and Mean Girls elicited multiple requests for me to give my take on Clueless. I'd somehow managed to avoid seeing Clueless all these years. But pleasing my readers is job one, so last night I watched the movie for the first time. Now, I pointed out before how…
July 25, 201934 Comments
Mean Heathers

Mean Heathers

Hollywood producers long ago figured out that they could repackage audiences' high school experience and sell it back to them. It's a testament to human vanity that a four year stint in what now amounts to a juvenile detention center can be glamorized into a long-running subgenre. As with everything,…
July 22, 201918 Comments
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Satanic Boomer Agitprop

Regular readers will be familiar with my penchant for shining a light on Hollywood's hatred of their audience and Boomers' hatred of every other generation. Much as A Bridge Too Far proves Pigman's Caine-Hackman hypothesis, I have been presented with the ultimate intersection of Hollywood diabolism and Boomer propaganda in the…
January 7, 201941 Comments
Perpetual Episode One Syndrome

Perpetual Episode One Syndrome

Back in high school and college when I was first getting into the anime scene, I came to notice a recurring and highly vexing phenomenon. Bootleg VHS tapes were still the main source of new stuff from Japan back then. Getting our fix legit meant sending away via a mail…
September 10, 201835 Comments