Rushfield writes an extended lament over the parallel collapse of Hollywood and the country. He blames the Boomers for causing the problems. He’s right about the guilt but not about the reason for the guilt.
Technical change is NOT INEVITABLE. It’s not gravity or weather. Technical change is a HUMAN DECISION, and in the current era the humans who are making the decisions are pure devils.
The Innovative Disruptors who ruin everything are mostly younger. Ellison, Zuck, Jobs, Xlon, Bezos. Gates is a Boomer, but he isn’t the prime mover in tech. Microsoft is a bit more legacy-minded, less inclined to kick existing users in the face.
We Boomers are at fault for failing to halt the demonic disruptors. The disruptors played into our Deepstate-induced habit of meritocracy. All of our schooling and media told us that people are identical and hard work is the sole determiner of status and pay. The demons created an impression of hard work and fast motion, fueled by cocaine, and we let them steal the world.
The same pattern occurs in politics. Trump happily joined the “virus” demons led by Mecher and Kadlec, who are mostly millennials. They played his OCD and megalomaniacal tendencies, letting him take the god-like credit for ruining the country and enriching Bezos. Younger governors like Inslee and Newsom, working under direct orders from Bezos and Zuck, grabbed the ball and slammed it even harder into and onto the faces of the losers and suckers. Trump didn’t halt them, but he ALSO didn’t halt the sane young governors like DeSantis and Noem who broke away from the tyranny.
France learned this lesson the hard way in 1793, and recovered its sense of tradition and stable culture and stable skills in the next few decades. It’s up to the sane young folks to stand up against the demons in their OWN generation. We failed to stand up, and by now we’re too old and weary to mount a LONG-TERM fight even though some of us would love to see it happen.
In Hollywood the unions are doing EXACTLY the right thing, cleverly and powerfully resisting the demons in their own generation, because they understand the demons. The unions used the older film-only studios as a wedge to break the younger tech tyrants.
I don’t see a parallel in politics. Vivek is a contender, but so far he lacks the unifying force of the unions. He does have a unique ethnic advantage. As an Indian he naturally gets the innateness of caste, and he speaks the same language, both lit and fig, as some of the tech execs like Sundar Pichai.
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