Or it could be some other object, like a moving finger, a pendulum or a swinging watch that some hypnotists use.

Where is the pendulum going to end up settling, if it's swung one way, does it come back?

And it began two years ago, the Russians as it were created a pendulum swing towards themselves.

The pendulum swings all the way over into the realm of apathetic stupor and then it can often just stop swinging altogether because perhaps the most dangerous part of apathy is that one of its side effects is not caring much about its side effects.

But I, you know, one day the pendulum is going to swing back toward the gays.

As they grow up, they're bombarded with the fact that their lives probably won't be as good as their parents. They probably won't be able to afford a house. They will have a much harder time building a family or even finding people to connect with. The social contract that previous generations bought into has disappeared. It's easy to treat the mental health problems that we see today as their own isolated issue, but in many ways, they're the natural response to what kids are facing. At this point, it might feel a little bit hopeless, but the light at the end of the tunnel is that we're all catching on to these mistakes. We're slowly realising that you don't need to make your kids terrified of strangers. It took decades for people to finally question that absurd narrative. People are waking up to the dangers of social media, the lack of free play in kids, and how addictive and destructive it is to keep kids isolated in a safe little box in their room, staring at a screen endlessly for hours every single day. I mean, how many young people today, how many of your friends that you know, would actually let their children become heavy technology users? Even with cars, despite how embedded they've become, the pendulum is slowly swinging the other way. Young people who've travelled and experienced life in cities that aren't dominated by them know the difference that it can make. We're not going to instantly solve the many challenges that young people face because of the mistakes of the past, but before too long, the generation that grew up with these problems and actually understands them will be in the driving seat, and hopefully, by some miracle, they'll be able to actually fix them and know the value of making their kids' lives better than their own.

Back and forth now I'm feelin' guilty Cause I just can’t stop this pendulum in my head

We are now heading inside the wind damper and this is a giant pendulum.

You know, then he started becoming who he is, and the pendulum shifted.

What it's supported on is Y columns, so the columns come up and on the top of each Y is a base isolator, it's a friction pendulum isolator, and so that has been engineered to take the mass at each location, and so at the edges you might have a different size friction pendulum, in the middle you have another size, and those move and it's calculated that the amount of friction force that is taken at each location allows it to move exactly how much it needs to move, and the friction part is what holds it into place.