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As followup to yesterday's Maytime post:

A local Boy Scout troop in Sherman Oaks is using the same number as a troop that was in Studio City   until fairly recently, and had been around for quite a while. Which makes it look like the previous troop went under and the number was recycled. As with Maytime, it seems as if that troop may have been a product of the previous High, and unable to stay relevant as the Unraveling came its way.

It turns out, though, that the troop is considered a continuous successor to that "other" troop, which was organized in 1952 by Mr. Richard Campbell.  As such, it recently celebrated its sixty year anniversary. The relocation might still indicate that something changed fairly recently, or that the influx of new Millennial values made it more able to continue as a going concern.

Bonus item: Searching for earlier information on the troop led to an article on the 1996 funeral of one of the original troop leaders. Colonel Rhodes Dawson had a 100th Birthday Celebration on Earth Day 1990, which is to say almost exactly 26 years ago. Which, if doing the math from that article hadn't made clear, meant he was born in 1890 - solidly in the Lost Generation. And even without using math, reading the article makes it clearer yet what a Nomad looks like, all the way through the grumpy-old-man archetype appropriate for the last decades of his life.

It is certainly true that this generational view of history has a way to go before being mainstream. It also needs to have a good answer to the perception that "predictions" made are a variation of cold reading: making vague assertions, ignoring the failures and overstating the successes. Still, Colonel Dawson so perfectly lands in the predicted archetype that it seems certain such an answer will be available eventually.