Transactional Generation

The Transactional Generation

A frequent topic of this blog that has, rather surprisingly to me, caught a great deal of reader interest is the ongoing project to map the contours of forgotten generations. These are the cohorts who've been memory holed since Madison Avenue no longer finds them profitable to advertise to. Also…
October 21, 202126 Comments
Link's Awakening

A Link to the 90s

Recently in my internet wanderings, I chanced upon a rare buried treasure--the sort that used to pop up regularly before the death of the web. The following piece of archived video only runs three minutes, but in that short time it captures the look and mood of Nintendo headquarters in…
September 1, 20216 Comments
Video Gambling

Video Gambling

If you're familiar with the refined generational theory discussed on this and other counterculture blogs, you know that Generation Y is clearly differentiated from the Millennials by the latter's gullibility and loathing of the past in contrast to the former's tractability and morbid nostalgia. Of all the pop culture stories…
August 25, 202118 Comments
Old Money

Old Money

Yesterday's post on my imperial platform gave rise to comment about the sticky issue of generational wealth. My take on the old money issue largely aligns with Devon Stack's. Our rulers' unprecedented power is the legacy of vast generational wealth their forefathers accumulated decades--even centuries--ago. Their inheritance gives them a…
August 18, 202117 Comments
Nostalgia Bar

The Nostalgia Bar

Much has been written on this blog and others about generational theory and nostalgia. Counterculture writers have done extensive work showing how the old demographic models based on age have broken down in the face of accelerating social change.  If your predictions are based on lumping folks who came of…
August 11, 202114 Comments
Panorama Agents - Y Signal

Panorama Agents

Wherein author JD Cowan points out that cracks were showing in the pleasure dome the Boomers built to pacify their kids years before it collapsed. This summer of 1995, however, had felt somewhat off. Ray couldn’t put his finger on why. This movie continued that oddly detached feeling he had…
July 9, 2021
The World You Were Raised to Survive In No Longer Exists

The Boomer Black Hole

Another round of black pilling on Generation Z swept through counterculture circles over the July 4 weekend. The hand-wringing for the future was occasioned by this survey. Now, the takeaway some are deriving from those figures, that only about a third of Zoomers believe in God, is provably nonsense. What…
July 5, 20216 Comments
torture

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
cardboard cutouts

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