In a time of rapid change, there s a lot of fear. The pace of change has been so great, even the agents of change have the fear. The sons are eating the fathers so fast in this sped-up Oedipal drama, that even as they are eating the father they know there s someone about to eat them. All the glee that is associated with victory is short-lived. That s why the story of Glenn Mueller was so interesting to me.
Nothing is built to last, everything is built to be torn down, including the people.
Everything has a short sell-by date on it. Look at people in Silicon Valley, they are old milk on supermarket shelves. They are about to go bad. They brag about being paranoid. They think it s a virtue.