Jens Grede

What I'm seeing, quite interestingly,

where pop culture used to be more contrarian to the establishment.

The 90s was about being contrarian to the establishment.

It wouldn't matter if it is Nirvana or Public Enemy.

The establishment was somewhat the enemy of the young.

Today, we live in a time where I see pop culture moving more in lockstep

with the establishment, and let's say where the wind is blowing, dare I say politically, but just in terms of what we put first.

In a world today that most people really consider quite threatening, scary, uncertain.

I just watched a movie, Mountainhead.

I heard about it.

I haven't watched it yet.

It's worth a watch.

It's a good satire.

It's clear he spent some time with the stereotypical billionaire master of the universe, gods of tech.

I think that movie, however exaggerated it is and how much it preys on our fear about the future, but that's how people feel.

That's nothing new.

I go back to Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove, which was about the prospect of a nuclear war.

which really, if you ask your grandparents, defined their whole life.

These consequential moments that we are now experiencing, they experienced, and I would say they were probably more intense.

The Cuba Missile Crisis, it's a highly intense moment.