In many ways, Bob is probably an extremely obsolete person:
1) Health: No explanation necessary, Diabetes will likely limit his lifespan by some years.
2) Job Security: IMO, the job security of a cultural critic may be at it's lowest ever, people have pretty much reduced their work into an almost-binary Tomatometer, plus you have the current culture wars undermining a lot of their credibility to the consumer, not to mention the mountain of undergrad interns who will immediately take their place at any for pennies on the dollar. At least people like Matt Seitz or Alan Sepinwall (as douche-y as they can be) are tethered to a big website and have some following of their own, but Bob can't claim to have either, his opportunity to do so was probably gone when The Escapist laid him off.
3) Age factor: Bob didn't manage to procreate, and he probably has minimal savings, so you can bet your ass he's very fucked when he hits his 60s.
I can go on and on, but then I would be veering into A-Log territory. I honestly don't get how he would speak about anyone else with such derision and false-superiority, even if we cede the moral ground to him, he's still considered obsolete from a purely logical and evolutionary stand-point.
