I accidentally saw some episodes of the office. Michael Scott and Dwight are more reactionary than I originally remembered. Just small details, but also the character’s personalities.

I just get a lot of vibes like, the writers thought “History has ended” but seeing this stuff later in life I know for a fact history comes back for season 2.

I’ve noticed things and gotten the vibe from other old TV shows, too.

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It’s such a gen X “caring is for nerds” ideological lens. Could not have existed anywhere but the 80s-90s and carried through once they got jobs.

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Men in Black, at least, was directly playing in to the Men in Black mythology that inspired the story; Faceless government agents in ill fitting suits doing spooky stuff. Like that’s not the subtext that is the text.

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Meanwhile they were far more ethically vague in the comics. J neuralizes a kid who saw a vampire and tells him to become a clock tower shooter when he’s over 18.

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