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

Hidden Forces

Demetri Kofinas

Government, Business

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 26 October 2025

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Episode 445 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 "The Answer Was Here All the Time," 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 about the dangers of politicizing religion and weaponizing faith in response to growing social and existential angst in Western societies. Demetri, Grant, and Roger explore Europe's identity crisis, the destabilizing effects of uncontrolled immigration, the cultural consequences of collapsing birth rates, the economic and social tragedy facing younger generations, and the broader epistemic collapse that has made consensus-building nearly impossible and replaced reasoned debate with a totalizing ambition for political domination.

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Episode Recorded on 10/10/2025

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0:00.0	What's up, everybody? My name is Demetri Kaffinus, and you're listening to Hidden Forces,
0:05.9	a podcast that inspires investors, entrepreneurs, and everyday citizens to challenge consensus
0:12.5	narratives and learn how to think critically about the systems of power shaping our world.
0:18.3	Where you're about to hear is the ninth episode in a podcast series hosted by
0:22.0	me and my co-host, Grant Williams, titled The Hundred Year Pivot. In it, we speak with some of the
0:27.8	smartest, most plugged-in people we know to help position ourselves, our organizations, our families,
0:34.3	and our portfolios for the once-in-a-century economic, political, and geopolitical
0:39.5	reordering that we believe is currently underway. In today's conversation, Grant and I speak
0:45.3	with Roger Mitchell, an entrepreneur and writer whose essay The Answer was here all the time,
0:51.4	published in Grant's 2025 Compendium, explores faith, meaning, and the search
0:56.5	for moral grounding in a contemporary West that feels increasingly unmoored and an epistemic
1:01.9	freefall. We begin today's conversation by diagnosing the cultural and spiritual malaise that
1:07.6	seems to have taken hold of Western societies, the fraying of the social
1:11.4	contract, the boomer blues, as Roger calls them, and why life inside the machine leaves us
1:17.4	lonely, angry, and afraid, and in dire need of real human contact.
1:23.1	The second half of the episode turns to a discussion about the dangers of politicizing religion
1:28.4	and weaponizing faith in response to growing social and existential angst in Western nations.
1:34.3	We explore Europe's identity crisis, the destabilizing effect of uncontrolled immigration, the
1:40.3	cultural consequences of collapsing birth rates, the economic and social tragedy facing
1:45.6	younger generations, and the broader epistemic collapse that seems to have made consensus-building
1:50.7	nearly impossible and replaced reasoned debate with a totalizing ambition for political
1:56.4	domination. The episodes in this series are published a week ahead of time on both the Hidden
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