Ep. 70 - The Doom of Generation X

Some thoughts on how Nomad aka Reactive generations end up being the grumpiest old people ever. And also on how knowing about the past doesn't mean you understand the future. 

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Lucy Hires a Maid

Verna Felton aka Mrs. Porter

WarGames at IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086567/

Matthew Broderick and Ally Sheedy

Professor Falken explain how the world works to David and Jennifer

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104940/

(Not a Nomad, not as frightening a person at 53 as Verna was at 63 - a quite believable member of the Silent generation.)

Statler and Waldorf

This isn’t about Statler and Waldorf, but it is about the Muppet Christmas Carol, which is close enough here in December. 

https://www.gq.com/story/michael-caine-muppet-christmas-carol-interview

A random thought on Colonel Dawson - well, two. The first one is that he was named after Cecil Rhodes, which says something about who his parents thought were the good guys in colonial Africa in the late 19th Century. But also that I overheard him saying one time "I thought he was as good a general as he was a President" with an emphatic thumbs-down. 

I spent about five minutes searching Twitter for the flame war I mentioned and, I'll be honest, I can't even deal with looking at Musk's timeline for another moment. And the central tweet from him is offensive enough. So, if you want to find it, he posted it on December 27, 2024, at 11:22PM.

(Although it's not a bad example of my thesis, that everyone in a Nomad generation has trouble with their world after midlife.)