(0250) Possibly the worst time to be up and typing, awoke at 0150, things to do “in the morning” and need a second sleep. Think we need a post on sleep sometime.

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1. What’s in a generation?

There are those I know playdown generations, esp. those much younger do that … but if you have any sense of which living situation drove most people of note … yes, generation really does come into it, esp. post-war but I’d say even post Great Crash (1929).

For example, look at Roger Moore (1925) versus Sean Connery (1930), look at Adrian Rollini and Bix Beiderbecke (both 1903), F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896) from the 20s ditsy generation. The last truly creative person in tech was Steve Jobs (1955), as against people like Kurt Cobain (1967), Paul Oakenfold (1964) or Rachel Reeves (1979).

Cobain and Oakenfold were adaptors of tech and trends but not creative like a slew of artists of the 40s, peaking mid 50s and after that … the descent began … Gen X were pretty useless and dissolute, whiners and moaners, very dark. Millennials, e.g. Reeves, were just useless (mid Millennial), fault of the Boomers. Tim Berners-Lee (1955).

Also useless drones later in the Boomers … Obama (1961), David Cameron (1966). On the other hand, someone sane and useful, e.g. Kate Hoey (1946) … patterns do emerge by sheer numbers. The uselessness and cushiness started to set in in the mid 50s birthdates, even earlier … the Dr. Spock generation of unprincipled brats, politically left, student radicals etc. but you have to wait till the mid-70s to see the malaise in full swing.

Around about the start of the Millennials. So a generation of malcontents were followed by the children of the Boomers. The new lost generation are Gen Zee, children of Gen X, no prospects in 2026. None of them pre-tech and net. Millennials are in power right now in the middle ranks by age … at least they’re making the running.

I saw a talk between Piers Morgan (1965) and Tucker Carlson (1969, pure Gen X). Erika Kirk (1988) and Candace Owens (1989), both mid-Millennials. Blair was born in 1953 … the beginning of the cushy Boomers.

Where does all this get us? Well, it gets me, at 0332, looking for a second sleep so I can start the work at an earlier hour than 0800. Cheers.