in the next decade we are going to be seeing so many movies where characters have arcs about wanting to be accepted that are stretched out to vaguely resemble a metaphor about being trans with really no other narrative commitment to the concept. and all of them will read to me like this image.
Los Angeles uses its influence in media to make people into thinking it’s a city where everyone is a fit and attractive upper middle class person that’s super hot while New York uses its influence on media to make sure everyone hates New Jersey as much as they do
There are many canards about that generation, but the most persistent is that the boomers were central to the social and cultural events of the nineteen-sixties. Apart from being alive, baby boomers had almost nothing to do with the nineteen-sixties.
A much larger number of young Americans went to Vietnam than dropped out.
You know, this is a really good point: the median young American involved in an organized effort to end the Vietnam War in the 1960s and early 1970s was a soldier and his organization was the Army.
Youth culture is manufactured by people who are no longer young. When you are actually a young person, you can only consume what’s out there. It often becomes “your culture,” but not because you made it.
Some people name their child after themselves, and some people say they think of their pets as their children, but rarely do you see a pet owner name their pet after themself. “Hi, I’m Dave, and this is my dog, Dave” – you just don’t see that a lot.
