I've been meditating on this for a long time now, and it's clear to me that beneath the rationalized materialist system

beats the heart of men who long for heroism.

It's been the thematic fixture of our media for a long time now, in different guises.

The boomers saw themselves as the world-historic protagonists, making things safer capitalism and democracy,

by ushering in the end of history. Generation X saw this looming artificial world of corporate

offices with existential terror and told themselves stories of how best it could be escaped. Millennials

were resigned to their fate

and set themselves to shaping the corporate world to at least be a comfortable civilizational

retirement, whilst at the same time disposing of any legacy patriarchal boundaries. And Zumas are

the glowing embers in the ashes of human greatness.

They've been denied the mechanisms by which they might develop into the men that their forefathers once were.

Locked out of the system, they are wondering how they can overthrow it.

You are going to look at the cover of Islander 5 and think we printed it yesterday in response

to current events because it goes hard.

However, each issue takes months to produce and not only does it take time to logistically

bring everything together, it's the long hours of contemplation on the state of the world and the direction of travel

of the forces within it that means it becomes something this special.

Trump's presidency has been heroic, whether you like it or not. The nature of his rise to

power, the initial run and struggles to master the system and its enemies.

Their strike back during the Biden years and his victorious return after winning everything

is the very model of an epic story. But whose story is it? Well, it's the story of the boomers.

Trump and his United States are still on the same mission that the

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