The Latest Generation

Thoughts on the 2012 film the Perks of Being a Wallflower, and how it works within the generational story model, with an associated look at the 1983 Suicidal Tendencies song "Institutionalized" and how each represents (and perceives) Generation X.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Perks_of_Being_a_Wallflower_(film)

On IMDB

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1659337/

Music video for Institutionalized

https://youtu.be/LoF_a0-7xVQ

Brad & Lex listening to Institutionalized

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTP_oE6jm1M

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicidal_Tendencies

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Muir

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutionalized_(song)

Emma Watson hairstyles (only because I was wondering if I was remembering correctly about why her hair is short in this movie)

https://www.harpersbazaar.com/beauty/hair/g8011/emma-watson-hair/

Episodes like this one, that are primarily about movies or stories, will be under this "A Story Aside" imprint. (Previous ones have simply had "Aside" at the start but that seemed incomplete.)

They'll use the generational stories model described at http://stories.generationalize.com/

Some worthwhile starting points there are Introduction to Generations, the Generational Attributes and the Four Stories.

A look at the 18th dynasty of ancient Egypt, specifically considering whether we ccan effectively align it with the generational model.

A listing of the pharaohs of the 18th dynasty

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eighteenth_Dynasty_of_Egypt

On the historicity of the Exodus, including mentions of Akhenaten and other 18th Dynasty pharoahs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sources_and_parallels_of_the_Exodus

The breakdown described, moving backwards from 1292 BCE (end of Horemheb's reign, and end of the 18th dynasty).

Starts

Ends

Pharoah at start

Pharaoh at end

Complete

Second

1592

1573

Third

1572

1553

Fourth

1552

1533

Kamose (17th)

Ahmose I

First

1532

1513

Ahmose I

Amenhotep I

Second

1512

1493

Amenhotep I

Thutmose II

Thutmose I

Third

1492

1473

Thutmose II

Hatshepsut

Fourth

1472

1453

Hatshepsut

Thutmose III

First

1452

1433

Thutmose III

Thutmose III

Second

1432

1413

Thutmose III

Amenhotep II

Third

1412

1393

Amenhotep II

Thutmose IV

Fourth

1392

1373

Thutmose IV

Amenhotep III

First

1372

1353

Amenhotep III

Akhenaten

Second

1352

1333

Akhenaten

Tutankhamun

Smenkhkare Neferenefureaten

Third

1332

1313

Tutankhamun

Horemheb

Ay

Fourth

1312

1293

Horemheb

Horembeb

First

1292

Ramses I (19th)

Inspired by Tom Nichols' thoughts on the Russian invasion of Ukraine; Pink Floyd's The Final Cut; Joe Jackson's Forty Years; the Generational model; and the pre-war dream.

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2023/02/war-ukraine-soviet-collapse/673197/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

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.

Thoughts on the occasion of the end of the year 2022

The dot-com era happened when it did because of the invention of the World Wide Web, which made it easier to use the connected network of computer networks we call The Internet.

https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/WorldWideWeb.html

It's the Roaring '20s, and there are new ways of making money, new technologies, new ways of becoming famous. Charles Lindbergh had learned to fly airplanes, and would use his understanding of this new technology to become rich and one of the most famous people on the planet.

Viewing slavery as a moral or economic issue makes it easier to talk about, since it removes people from the conversation, allowing opportunities for compromise, ways to get along, ways to talk past the difficult conccept of people being used. That was often how such discussions of slavery in the Uniited States had gone for a while.

Harriet Beecheer Stowe's story of enslaved people in the South moved the conversation in a less comfortable direction, by making the suffering of slaves personal and specific.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Northup

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_Douglass

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narrative_of_the_Life_of_Frederick_Douglass,_an_American_Slave

Benjamin Franklin was well known for a number of reasons, but even today "flying a kite in a thunderstorm" is one of the first that comes to mind.

This is a landmark that everyone knows about, and one reason for having it here is to give a specific date to it (1752, that is). There's also the concern over how authentic to consider it - the descriptions here are definitely from Franklin and in that year, even if he was neither to first to try it nor confirmed to have actually done it.

Stuck at home during the plague year of 1666, young Isaac Newton considered important scientific issues of the day, and quickly made amazing advances in mathematics, astronomy, physics, and general understanding of the universe.