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 return of the Jedi (1983) for a young adult in the military and in a crisis - even if he’s  still kinda old at 31 or so 

A previous look at other WWII folks as shown 30 years later. 

https://x.com/generationalize/status/1676480077234847745?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA

 

 

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars%3A_The_Last_Jedi

The whole “Why aren’t you doing exactly as I asked, that’s what people did when I was your age”  - one we expect to see in a Second Turning - perfectly fits the Admiral v Poe dynamic. 

My previous thoughts on The Force Awakens - I should do one for The Last Jedi.

http://stories.generationalize.com/2015/12/the-force-awakens-initial.html

Slightly off on that quote from Serenity.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0379786/quotes/?item=qt0433147

A random follow-up on that: Forrest Gump is told by Jenny not to be a hero, he only becomes one because he tries to run away,

 

Prompt the Second

Would excel being available five years earlier have kept the ussr from falling?

 

A record of the last 30ish years in Russia. https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2023/11/russian-journalists-ukraine-war-wagner-group/676064/

Here's where I got what I found about spreadsheets: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spreadsheet

 

 

https://x.com/13millionplus/status/1728195677883351107?s=46&t=h3SDrddBzjyl2UOHr9Q3xA

 

The Wikipedia page references what Moore considered the point of departure.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_All_Mankind_%28TV_series%29

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergei_Korolev - the Chief Designer

 

Prompt the Third

Why is communication - the ability to communicate- fundamental to the generational model

 

Irish politics are becoming incomprehensible….2nd Turning?

https://twitter.com/search?q=ireland%20free%20speech&src=typed_query&f=top

It involves views of free speech as elated to the murder of a young teacher, Ashling Murphy.