Hayter Hate

Hayter Hate

Let the above image serve to remind you that the people behind the product you consume hate you. The Death Cultists responsible for your beloved childhood IPs hold you in contempt and seek to use your attachment to convert you. Put away childish things. Put on the armor of God.…
October 20, 202212 Comments
Nostalgia Sale

Nostalgia Sale

On a recent trip to a local used video game store, a fellow Gen Y friend puzzled over the religious devotion lavished on 80s and 90s IPs by Ys. As our generation enters middle age, many of us increasingly turn our natural religious impulse to Pop Cult relics. More and…
October 11, 202217 Comments
Columbus

The Mediocrities’ Revenge

Here at the fall of Western civilization, it's more important than ever to preserve memories of history's greatest culture. I'm old enough to remember when the manufactured outrage against Columbus Day started to gain traction. I also remember the anemic response from BoomerCons, who couldn't conceive that the institutions and…
October 10, 202213 Comments
Depression Rates by Age

Generation Depressed

Having pointed out the faults of Generation Y, this blog turns its scrutinizing eye to the Millennial generation. Happiness comes from living in harmony with God, neighbor, nature, and oneself. By that standard, Millennials might be the most disordered, and therefore miserable, postwar cohort. Exhibit A: their astronomical depression rates.…
October 6, 20226 Comments
Adult Happy Meal

Adult Cult Meal

It might be low-hanging fruit, but the new adult Happy Meal from McDonald's demands coverage on this blog. If only because it's the quintessential intersection of my Lost Generations model and the Pop Cult. McDonald's is serving up nostalgia with new “boxed meals” for adults that look like Happy Meals…
October 4, 20226 Comments
panic

Panic Rewind

As the 1980s vanish in the rearview mirror of the speeding clown car that is America, Generation Y's role as the last cohort with personal memories of that era gains added importance. The closest thing to a political vision that Conservatives have pushed for Millennials' and Zoomers' whole lives is…
September 2, 202222 Comments
Parade

Parade Jumping

It's an open secret in Conservative politics that controlled opposition figures' main job is jumping in front of parades to neutralize genuine dissent. I've noted this phenomenon for years. But I have to admit, it's weird being subjected to it. Freudian slips? Or deliberate co-option? You decide: FYI, that's the…
August 22, 202215 Comments
TragedyOfTheAges

Tragedies of the Ages

An important part of being a social commentator is engaging with good-faith arguments that challenge your positions on the topics you cover. That goes double for writers, since it's storytellers who are the new priesthood of our narrative-driven society. That is also why literary critics play a vital if often…
August 8, 202221 Comments
Education Limits

A Hard Limit

As society continues its accelerating slide into the abyss, people are starting to realize that locking kids in state daycare prisons for eight hours a day doesn't make them smarter. Since I'm being contrarian on main, universal literacy and its consequences have been a disaster for the human race. I…
July 29, 202214 Comments
deconstruction

The Death of Metal

Members of older generations have taken to lamenting the musical taste - or lack thereof - displayed by Generation Z. It's easy to understand why. Every generation from the Boomers to the Millennials was raised on rock & roll. That definitive American music genre not only served as a cross-generational…
July 28, 202217 Comments