old man yelling at the clouds

plural old men yelling at the clouds

1. alternativeAlternative form of old man yells at cloud.

   Nowadays, anybody who talks about identity politics or describes an activist as woke is liable to be perceived as an old man yelling at the clouds.

   2023, Yascha Mounk, The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time, Penguin Press, →ISBN

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   On social media, Waters was billed as an out-of-touch “old man yelling at the clouds” with one Twitter user calling him a “selfish privileged white boomer.”

   2022 August 10, Mark Daniell, “In Deep Waters?”, in The Province, Vancouver, B.C., page 17, column 6

   I fully realize that I am an old man yelling at the clouds. I’m an old man yelling at the clouds in my khakis and my tie, and I’m not even all that old. I know that life has passed me by. / I know that all the cool kids buy everything online. / Let them, I say. / Let them buy cool shirts that match their eyes but hang wrong on their bodies.

   2022 September 18, Daniel Neman, “The many drawbacks of online shopping, awkward fits included”, in Sunday Post-Dispatch, volume 144, number 261, page C3, column 4