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{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|I love you, but you are not serious people.<br>Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading out.
{{a|work|{{image|serious people|gif|You know it.}} }}{{quote|“I love you, but you are not serious people.<br>:—Logan Roy, ''Succession''.}}As we approach the tenth anniversary of the [[great delamination]], it seems, quietly, that the epic shortage of “serious people” that characterised its first decade seems — somewhat? — to be fading out.


The ''appearance'' of endemic unseriousness may have just been the process of the [[JC]] aging, reaching age-parity with the sorts of people who get to run the world, and realising they were  — well, jerks, mainly — but it feels a bit more significant than that.
The ''appearance'' of endemic unseriousness may have just been the process of the [[JC]] aging, reaching age-parity with the sorts of people who get to run the world, and realising they were  — well, jerks, mainly — but it feels a bit more significant than that.