The Latest Generation

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. July 8 to July 14, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity - a daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the w...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective.   A daily description of events in the summer of 1945, touching points around the world but centered (as that summer was) on the Trinity nuclear test.   This episode has daily events for the week ending Saturday July 7th, 1945. Sunday, July 1...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. June 24 to June 30, 1945 This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 30th, 1945.   Sunday, June 24,1945 - 22 Days Before Trinity https://stanislavs.org/victory-parade-in-moscow-on-june-24-1945/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. June 17 to June 23, 1945   This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 23, 1945. Sunday, June 17,1945 - 29 Days Before Trinity It's the 78th day of the Battle of Okinawa. https://archive.org/details/FirstBoxingMatchesOnOkinaw...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. June 10 to June 16, 1945   This is Summer of Trinity, for the week ending Saturday June 16, 1945.   Sunday, June 10,1945 - 36 Days Before Trinity It's the 71st day of the Battle of Okinawa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_William_D._Porter_(...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. Summer of Trinity is a daily look at the summer of 1945, when the Second World War ended.  June 3, 1945 . Sunday.   It is the 64th day of the Battle of Okinawa. June 4, 1945. Monday. It is the 65th day of the Battle of Okinawa. Churchill's Ge...

Re-running Summer of Trinity, this time with episodes released at the start of their respective weeks rather than the end.  Just for a different perspective. A look at each day between Memorial Day and Labor Day, 1945 - the six weeks on either side of the Trinity test on July 16.  (For future weeks, we'll have an entry for each day, but we already did May 1945 in the previous episode.) May 30, 194...

A introduction to the state of the world in May 1945, as part of a re-run of Summer of Trinity. FDR is dead. Truman is President, only three months after he became vice-president. The Battle of Okinawa is ongoing - it had started on April 1st. USS Indianapolis is in San Francisco for repairs from a kamikaze attack in the waters around Okinawa, just before the invasion began. The USSR has just ende...

Summer of Trinity is a look at the summer of 1945, between Memorial Day and Labor Day. Halfway between those dates, on July 16, was the Trinity atomic weapon test - but a lot was happening all around the world, during the 6 weeks before and after Trinity.  That's what this series will be about.

This is just for fun, with no real generational connection except that both Abraham Lincoln and George Lucas are from Prophet generations. (Boom for Lucas, Transcendental for Lincoln.) And, as such, it's not surprising that a similar arrangement works for both of them.  If you like Star Wars and Aaron Copland, you may enjoy it. Fun fact: George Lucas' birthday is May 14, 1944, which was the two-ye...

14 09 27 -- The Battle of Flowers parade was my second parade ever. It was April 27, 1979, in San Antonio, Texas, part of "Fiesta," an annual series of events in San Antonio.  I was there with my high school band, on a trip we'd been looking forward to all year. https://battleofflowers.org/events/   The numbering convention is an adaptation of the method used in  Defending Your Life . In the movie...

I haven't stayed up to date on Reactivities - just seeing that it's nearly a year since my last one - so going to put this up again just to prime the pump, remind myself of The Plan. ======================================================== Our first tale from interesting times could've happened in other times - there's nothing specific about that time it happened, except that everyone there was Ge...

Five years at my job, five years since I was trying to find work in the middle of a pandemic.  This is short and simple but the advice it has isn't half bad, still.      Notes from the original: Eventually you have to make it through to the end. This is, as it says, the last Gen X Job Seeker episode, because....the search is over. Going to blame having a job again for not having more to say this m...

The continuation is from the previous episode, The Sebastapol Sketches, about the 1850s Crimean War and the Tolstoy stories set there.  Because so much has been happening, it's a ramblling look at a lot of possibilities and how the generational model might make sense of it all. As such, there's not a lot here for further investigation besides the previous podcast episodes and a few tweets of mine....

On the four year anniversary of start of "Special Military Operation of the Russo-Ukrainian War, I thought I'd repost a couple of my relevant episodes from back then.  A look at Leo Tolstoy's Sevastopol Sketches, and what we can learn from them about recent activity in Crimea and Ukraine. Can't say for certain that the Orthodox Church of Ukraine has a lot to do with this, but it is recent enough t...

Originally intended to point out what a Crisis looks like, in the futile hope that maybe people in the USA would recognize when they were making them. Alas, this was not the case, and so we have a real peak Crisis happening.        Can we tell the start of a Fourth Turning by noticing the frequency and intensity of nation-level unforced errors? A look at the Soviet Union during the 1980s, when in...

Because the Countdown episodes were short and were 5 years ago, they likely aren't showing up in most podcast services. Here they all are at once...again. A consolidation of the half-dozen Countdown episodes from 2020, starting in October and ending on Election Day, with an epilogue from Inauguration Day, 2021. There was a lot happening in those couple of weeks.  The observations range from the im...

Pink Floyd's "The Final Cut" was similar to "Forty Years" in that it was a look back at how the goals of World War II had worked out. Which means it's been on my mind in a similar way, so I felt like redoing it as well.  But the bit about  "...you can speak out loud about your doubts and fears And what's more No-one ever disappears   You never hear their standard issue Kicking in your door" That s...

Redoing this one because it's the forty year anniversary of the recording of the song Forty Years.  A quick note from Joe Jackson's website - where, incidentally, you can't listen to his music any more. (You could when I first published this podcast episode, and I wanted to include the notes that were here before, but that particular one isn't true any more. Or at least, not right now.) http://joe...

A look at the last year, starting from jigsaw puzzles.  

Found myself thinking about how 200 years is seen as a limit for how long countries remain viable, and remembered that Egypt's 18th Dynasty lasted just about that long - most were noticeably shorter. It ended quickly after the boy-king Tutankhamen died young without an heir. Maybe a notice for what it takes for such a thing to end. 

Something about November just makes it difficult to get episodes done. So re-doing, here, a Thanksgiving episode, in its way, from a few years back. This is the second Redux with it - last time was two years ago. 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 few final thoughts on the Summer of Trinity.   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan_Project   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Iwo_Jima  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Okinawa   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_B._McVay_III Walter Griffith, the commander of USS Bullhead, who had departed the ship just before its final voyage that summer, also committed suicide, two years...

While this was originally posted in the fall of 2019, for the third year in a row I'm reduxing it.  It is, again, an appropriate meditaion for this quiet time of year, as the football games are starting to pass us by even if their music is still in the air. The warmth of the summer is still around, sometimes, but mostly it's cooling down, and it's a time for comfort food and old memories and peopl...

    Sunday, August 26,1945 - 41 Days After Trinity   Huaiyin–Huai'an Campaign   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warlord_Era   Monday, August 27,1945 - 42 Days After Trinity  https://www.usni.org/magazines/naval-history-magazine/2006/february/destroyers-tokyo-bay   Tuesday, August 28,1945 - 43 Days After Trinity U.S. occupation of Japan begins.   https://www.kirtland.af.mil/News/Photos/igphoto/200011...