I think we’re in some kind of between time for fads and popular theories. The old stuff is still circulating, but people are aware that it’s dead. Sort of like rock-and-roll before the Beatles. When there’s a paradigm shift, you never really know what’s going to be the next thing. I think the trends of organizational graying out of people, which quality did, and brainwashing people and all of those things that kind of made the ’80s and ’90s so weird are over. I think there’s more of a tolerance for idiosyncrasy and for creativity. And younger people — even though they’re annoyingly ironic and full of themselves and think they should be vice presidents the moment they walk into the place — contribute an energy and a not caring about all this that’s refreshing to people. And these young people coming in and wanting to have some fun coincides with all the baby boomers turning 50 who want to have fun.

So there’s a synergy.
Yes, between the younger people, who are shallow and fatuous and want to have fun, and their elders, who are feeling exactly the same way.

And yet through all of this, despite the fact that Bing has become the person he began his career eviscerating in print, he still retains his Bingness.
Yes. I still get mad at the same things. I just have a better expense account. And that’s what I hope for your readers. Peace, health, and a better expense account for all.

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