but while joyce , in his later years , seemed to consider the time he was living in to represent the beginning of a new age or a new cycle ( thus his optimism for then-new media such as movies ( the reel world ( fw 64.25 ) ) and television ( the tolvtubular high fidelity daildialler ( 309.14 ) ) ; kealey , on the other hand , intuits himself to be living at the end of a cycle ( thus , to some extent , his distrust of media and new technology ) .