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    Thread: The Generation with No Disney Princess
Post: RE: The Generation with No Disney Princess

Also remember that Gen X came of age as the Lib movement got in full swing - being a "nice" princess was suddenly a bad thing. We got Leia Organa, with her Stormtrooper-slaying pistol (latent Force po...
AarG Generation X 5 7,942 12-01-2018, 04:32 PM
    Thread: So why aren't Millennial adults spending enough?
Post: RE: So why aren't Millennial adults spending enoug...

Working with a number of Millennials has been interesting, as I saw a lot of the same patterns in their early post-education years that I saw in my own, twenty years before in the first "Bush" recessi...
AarG The Millennial Generation 2 2,813 12-01-2018, 03:55 PM
    Thread: What belongs exclusively to the current Fourth Turning?
Post: RE: What belongs exclusively to the current Fourth...

The retail "apocalypse" as Mr. Howe terms it - yes, we've had recessions, and iconic brands disappear before, but I have a feeling those were almost trivial compared to the economic sinkhole brick &am...
AarG Society and Culture 10 5,577 07-01-2018, 11:06 PM
    Thread: Obituaries
Post: RE: Obituaries

(10-02-2017, 07:10 PM)Marypoza Wrote: RlP Tom Petty ::( I am sooooo bummed.... Of all the Wilburys l think only only Ringo is left. First Roy Orbison dies, then George Harrison, & now Tom Pett...
AarG Special Topics/G-T Lounge 1,794 1,282,045 10-03-2017, 08:52 AM
    Thread: Why did the last 4T have so much better music than this 4T?
Post: RE: Why did the last 4T have so much better music ...

Others have made several good points, but I'd also point out the habit of carrying only a fraction of any particular era's music forward to succeeding generations, losing a bit more over time until th...
AarG Turnings 29 21,919 03-07-2017, 09:23 PM
    Thread: The Aging of X
Post: RE: The Aging of X

To quote Indiana Jones, it's not the years, it's the mileage... For those of us on the leading edge of the X cohort, we've never really known anything but brief pauses in political and economic uphea...
AarG Generation X 24 30,613 01-27-2017, 10:54 AM