The Latest Generation

  Prompt the First: The   Crazy World of 2nd Turning Music https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thompson_Twins - doesn't mention the shaved eyebrow thing,  SNL: Devo, B-52s, David Bowie It wasn't uncontrollable urge; it was Satisfaction and then Jocko Homo And it was between their first two albums - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duty_Now_for_the_Future came out in 1979 And during Jocko Homo, they strippe...

  Prompt the First - Guadalcanal But also: The Pacific (2010)-   last time did Band of Brothers,   Taylor Swift — 1:12:50 in Long Pond sessions - association between Guadalcanal fighting and pandemic trauma. — Epiphany Available on Disney+ And it was in fact released IN 2020 - before vaccines were available, while effectively lockdown was still ongoing. And also - just barely related the Ahwanee w...

This is a bit of stretch for relevance but: It's Tax Day, and sometimes that's too busy a day to get anything else done. While composing Fanfare for the Common Man, Aaron Copland thought Tax Day was the most common sort of day for modern man, and that it would make a good day for a premiere.  Which this isn't, but it's a decent look at the music that opens this podcast. ---------------------------...

  Prompt the First - Band of Brothers September 9, 2001 - Sunday ~ nearly 23 years ago ~ 55-60 years after the events portrayed WIth regards to people being comforted by the familiarity of battle movies, I was particularly thinking of the use of the Awahanee Hotel in Yosemite Valley as a treatment for shellshock, as PTSD was called at the time. It didn't work very well, because it was TOO quiet an...

The Ten Commandments was on, which is set completely in the 19th dynasty, but because it's soon after the 18th it seems relevant enough. There are a number of candidates for the Pharoah of the Exodus. As the 1956 movie The Ten Commandments shows, one is Ramses II, the third pharaoh of the 19th dynasty. The 18th Dynasty has at least one or two as well, and that Akhenaten attempted to institute mono...

Thoughts on the film Eternals, a Marvel Cinematic Universe film from 2021   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternals_(film) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9032400/ - on IMDB   Here's the Bluesky thread with my initial thoughts, most of which are in here. https://bsky.app/profile/generationalize.bsky.social/post/3koba7n5kd526   As one of the Story Aside episodes, it begins from the Stories model: http:...

Prompt the First: Four years later. In the time of Covid.   It's four years since COVID lockdowns. That seems significant to me, in a way that the four year anniversary of 9/11 didn't. But the 1 year anniversary of 9/11 was important, and 4 years wasn't. What's the difference? Prompt the Second: Saving the MCU with Generational Analysis A previous look at one small part: http://stories.generationa...

Re-upping this one, because I've let it go for a bit and coming back to it now.  Consider this one a reminder of things to come. ============================================ The atomic bomb test on July 16, 1945 - also known as Trinity - occurred only 3 weeks before the bombing of Hiroshima and only 7 weeks before the end of the war. Looking at it as the midpoint of that summer, it was only one of...

A final episode for the initial Mapping History consolidation, asking the questions "What's Left" and "What Next?"

In Third Turnings we can expect to see Less powerful societal structures More freedom for individuals to do what they consider worthwhile Exciting (if bubbly) economies as individuals explore new opportunities Names we still recognize as some individuals make themselves known 1543 - Nicolaus Copernicus publishes "On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres" As we draw the final side of our map - th...

  Prompt the First: Put on Your Sunday Clothes Hello Dolly: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0064418/ Wall*E: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0910970/   Prompt the Second: The Young Adult Suicide Chart Here's the tweet with the initial chart https://x.com/armanddoma/status/1758375001030627750?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA Shows increase and peak to 1994, sharp drop through 2003, then mostly show increase...

Prompt the first: What my dad did in the war He was right about 30, with 3 kids, working to make Vietnam the best war possible. So he was Young Adult, G.I. were Midlife/managers, Lost (a few of the younger ones) were Visionaries.   Prompt the Second: The Producers and the limits of acceptable parody  Released in 1967  https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0063462 The U2 album was Achtung Baby Prompt The Th...

The memorable and noticeable events in First Turnings particularly include * Infrastruture * Exploration * Seeking out corruption, in whatever form it's expected to exist. Rebuilding St. Peter's Basilica falls under the first category, especially when it's being rebuilt for the first time in over 1000 years.     Americans learn of the founding of Jamestown as part of their country's history, as th...

Welcome to The latest for January 28, 2024\ Prompt the First: On The Growth of Stranger Danger https://x.com/_tedks/status/1742610446065000771?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA "Over the 20th century, mass media reporting of child abductions spread the "stranger danger" concept. From the Lindenburg baby, to milk cartons, to satanic ritual abuse, this leads to a curtailment of freedom and an increase i...

This episode was originally published 3 years ago, on December 31 2020. It seems longer. This is a short summary of that year, and what the Crisis meant at that exact moment, and what we might have considered was going to come next. And yes, much of that was wrong as well. ============================== A look back at 2020, what The Crisis of 2020 might have been, and what Crisis really means, her...

I really wanted to review this episode and others related to the then-happening Crisis of 2020, because it's far enough out to consider if that really was the start of the peak of this current crisis or, if more is on its way.  An hour or so of reviewing what was happening at that time indicated it was not something I could through together quickly on the last day of 2023, so for now I'm going to...

I really wanted to review this episode and some followups on the Crisis of 2020, because it's far enough out to consider if that really was the start of the peak of this current crisis or, if more is on its way. An hour or so of reviewing what was happening at that time indicated it was not something I could through together quickly on the last day of 2023, so for now I'm going to simply repost th...

I was thinking of this one for Christmas, but it was originally done for Easter. Still, I think it's held up well.  -------------------------------------------------------- Whenever someone asks whether the generational model works outside of modern English-speaking country, one fun example is to look at Rome and Judea in the first century A.D., from the assassination of Julius Caesar to the cruci...

  Prompt the first : The end of instagram fame My Avastars Fashion Dolls   Big (the movie) Tom Hanks - he was 31 when the movie was released. Prompt the second ; Into thin air/ into the Wild   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_McCandless https://www.looper.com/1170434/everything-into-the-wild-doesnt-tell-you-about-the-true-story/ Into Thin Air: Death on Everest https://www.imdb.com/title/tt01189...

  Intro Olivia Rodrigo - Brutal - from Driving Home 2 U https://youtu.be/zHMpcUojLMU?si=DF7414ecqyM-1XlH Complete film (currently on Disney Plus) https://ondisneyplus.disney.com/movie/olivia-rodrigo-driving-home-2-u Prompt the First Military Generations in Star Wars - or the Admiral vs Poe Dynamic AKA Hero is   a perjorative in the 2nd turning.    Mark Hammill - born 1951 - looks properly young in...

A Thanksgiving episode, in its way. I thought I had written about this elsewhere, but this appears to be the closest I had done: https://crisis.generationalize.com/2014/06/plague.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osarseph - A possible second view of Exodus involving a priest who became the leader of a band of lepers, who managed to  ally with the Hyksos to take over Egypt for a short time. https:...

On the occassion of President Joseph Biden's 81st birthday, re-upping some observations on the first and last Silent Generation POTUS.    (Even if he only made the Silent cutoff by about 6 weeks.) ===================================== President Joseph Biden is the first President from the Silent Generation, and presumably the last. Is that going to be a problem, here in the Fourth Turning? Perhaps...

Prompt the First: Did The Marvels do poorly because it's a Hero movie? My Stories model can be found at http://stories.generationalize.com/   Prompt the Second: Clothing of the 2nd turning Here's something where I was previously considering the role Clothing in the Second Turning. Prompt the Third: On the significance of the Paradise Theater https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradise_Theatre_(Chicago)...

A consolidated version of the Mapping History episodes for the Second Turning Having completed mapping the Fourth Turning, Looking Back to see how Mapping History ties them all together 1534 - Returning to the early 16th century, where the Protestant Reformation has begun. Henry VIII began as a "Defender of the Faith" against Martin Luther, but within a few years is opposing the Church because he'...

Prompt the First - Is the Fourth Turning driving everyone crazy? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texas_City_disaster - 1947, so not technically, but https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Port_Chicago_disaster Cleveland East Ohio Gas explosion USS Mount Hood RAF Fauld explosion Futamata Tunnel Explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halifax_Explosion https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sultana_(steamboat) - 1965,...