The "Boomer Blues" and a Return to Faith | Roger Mitchell - Hidden Forces

<a href= "https://hiddenforces.io/podcasts/boomer-blues-and-a-return-to-faith-roger-mitchell"> Episode 445</a> is the ninth installment in the Hundred Year Pivot podcast series. In it, Demetri Kofinas and Grant Williams speak with Roger Mitchell, an entrepreneur and writer whose essay "<a href="https://www.grant-williams.com/2025/fin-de-siecle/">The Answer Was Here All the Time</a>," published in Grant Williams's 2025 compendium, explores faith, meaning, and the search for moral grounding in a contemporary West that feels increasingly unmoored and in epistemic freefall. The conversation begins with a diagnosis of the cultural and spiritual malaise that seems to have taken hold of Western societies: the fraying of the social contract, the "boomer blues," as Roger Mitchell calls them, and why life inside "the machine" leaves us lonely, angry, afraid, and in dire need of real human contact. The second half of the episode turns to a discussion...