Clock - Safety Last

The Clock Is Ticking for Boomers

A series of comments on yesterday's post by neopatron Bayou Bomber struck a chord with multiple readers. In the interest of giving the people what they want, here are his insights on the successive deaths of hipsterism and nerdery, slightly rearranged for ease of reading. A couple of thoughts: 1)…
June 25, 202431 Comments
Time Machine

We All Have Our Time Machines

Getting my new dark fantasy novel The Burned Book ready for launch is demanding more of my time of late. So here's a blast from the past that didn't get enough love the first time around. Did you know that you own a time machine? As a matter of fact,…
June 19, 20248 Comments
Traitor to Tradition

The Boomers: Traitors to Tradition

Every generation since the dawn of man has passed hard-won knowledge down to their posterity. That may seem like stating the obvious—and in any other age it would be—but something unprecedented happened to the West in the 1960s. Wht happened was the parents of gens X and Y decided not…
June 18, 202412 Comments
Y

Defining and Defending Gen Y

Every time we pull Generation Y out of the memory hole, Gen Y deniers come out of the woodwork to parrot Madison Avenue's gaslighting against it. Not that it mattes. Because the establishment sources they cite just end up defining and defending Gen Y. Frequent readers may remember the AdAge…
May 23, 202419 Comments
1990s TV

Watching the 90s Watch the 90s

Opining about the 1990s is all the rage in the internet salons these days. If you haven't been following the debate, it may come as some surprise that nostalgia for the final decade of he twentieth century is now a subject of controversy. The disagreement arises between those who want…
May 20, 202426 Comments
Nostalgia Room

Nostalgia in Light of Generation Theory

Over the years, I've dedicated what feels like miles of page inches to nostalgia in light of generational theory. Other counterculture figures have gone to great lengths showing how the outdated demographic models fail to account for the increasing rate of social change. It's not hard to understand. If your behavior…
May 10, 20245 Comments
2013

2013: The Year It All Changed

Our previous post about members of Gen Y facing the choice of growing up or becomig a byword gave rise to incisive commentary. Here, in no particular order, are the editor's pick of the comments. First, a diagnosis of what ails Generation Y by author JD Cowan: When I wrote…
May 8, 202410 Comments
Warning to Others

Generation Y: A Warning to Others

A valued reader writes in with a generation Y cautionary tale: I wanted to share with you a tale of a real life classmate of mine. We’ll call him Pat. Pat was a member of Gen Y. We met in the early 2010s during our time in law school. We…
May 7, 20248 Comments
Tolkien Long Defeat

Fighting the Long Defeat?

Spend some time scrolling through dissident Twitter, particularly those corners favored by more traditional Catholics, and you'll soon run across references to J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Both are the subject of myriad BrainyQuotes and, especially in Tolkien's case, movie still memes. There's no denying that the works of these…
May 1, 20246 Comments
Kids TV 1980s

Gen Y and the Pre-Internet Age

Getting mugged by reality is a definitive experience of Generation Y. The last cohort with personal memories of the pre-9/11 world, Ys have entered middle age in a state of deep confusion regarding their place in society. So far, the story of their lives has been “Stuff yourself on fast…
April 30, 202419 Comments