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The Latest Generation

By: Patrick Bowman
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  • The Latest Generation is a discussion on how different generations influence current events, culture, and history.
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Episodes
  • A Story Aside - Eternals
    Mar 25 2024

    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://stories.generationalize.com

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    12 mins
  • The Latest for March 17 2024
    Mar 18 2024
    • 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.generationalize.com/2019/06/
      • Iron Man
      • Infinity War - Thanos' Snap
      • Endgame - the Blip and Attack on Avengers Compound, which (i'd say) should be, really, the end of this 4th Turning.
        • "This is the battle of our lives" - Steve Rogers
    • The Matrix (1997)
      • The initial tweet https://x.com/petreraleigh/status/1768708381064175908?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA
      • https://x.com/pataphysician/status/1768730842270982520?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA “ don’t have the attention span for tv”
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    34 mins
  • Redux - The Trinity Project
    Mar 5 2024

    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.

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    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 many signficant events in the last three months of World War II.

    I've started a project looking at each of those days, to create a view of that time, to better understand what went into the decision to create and use the atomic bomb, and how people around the world reacted to it. Starting from Memorial Day, at the end of May 1945, and continuing through Labor Day- the day after the official Japanese surrender - it will look at every single day, finding something something signifcant, or at least noteworthy.

    There's Klaus Fuchs, meeting with Harry Gold in Santa Fe on June 2, to pass atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Or Lieutenant General Simon Bolivar Buckner, killed on Okinawa on June 18. The first troops returning from Europe on July 1. President Truman leaving for Potsdam on July 7. Clement Atlee winning the election in the United Kingdom on July 26, replacing Churchill as Prime Minister. The bombing of Hiroshima. The August Revolution in Vietnam. The Occupation of Japan starting on August 28. The short ceremony ending the war on September 2nd - a quiet Sunday in a Tokyo Bay, not unlike one four years earlier.

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    10 mins

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