{"id":244349,"date":"2026-05-20T14:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/whats-new-is-old-again\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:52:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:52:42","slug":"whats-new-is-old-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/20\/whats-new-is-old-again\/","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s New Is Old Again"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Look, I know the idea of the future is scary and everyone\u2019s all freaked out about AI and stuff, but it\u2019s going to be fine, trust me. For example, I\u2019m old enough to remember when 1984 was supposed to look like this:<\/p>\n

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But instead it turned out like this:<\/p>\n

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And hey, you can speculate that the microphone stand butt-wiping antics of David Lee Roth and his cock-rocking corporate rock peers were also intended to undermine independent thought, and that MTV basically served the same purpose as that facially-mounted rat cage thingy:<\/p>\n

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But still, it\u2019s hard to hold on to a state of existential fear after that.<\/p>\n

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Though Lob knows we tried.<\/p>\n

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So yeah, it\u2019s hard to get too worried about stuff at this point in my life, yet even I in my middle-aged complacency I find this a bit unsettling:<\/p>\n

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