Baby boomer
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“So I chose freedom. Running around, trying everything new.” https://theculturetrip.com/south-america/argentina/articles/the-untold-story-behind-the-song-dont-cry-for-me-argentina So here we are again US focused on our own Western Hemisphere after decades of global intervention, particularly in the Middle East. With so much going on (Tariffs, Greenland, Iran, Los Angeles, Minneapolis) let’s look back just a few short weeks into the United States…
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“What we are looking at is good and evil, right and wrong” – US President George H.W. Bush The Persian Gulf conflict began with the Iraqi President, Saddam Hussein ordering the invasion of its oil rich neighbor, Kuwait. Other Arab nations were fearful that they could also fall to future invasion and called on the…
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“So wake me up when it’s all over When I’m wiser and I’m older All this time I was finding myself And I didn’t know I was lost” There are really too many happenings and highlights for this set of years. What comes around, goes around. United States Government Shutdown of 2013 and subsequent: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_shutdowns_in_the_United_States…
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The end of the American High was marked by the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy on November 22nd, 1963 in Dallas, Texas. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy?wprov=sfti1# The nation mourned the end of an era of American progress and gave way to the next generation of what is now called the Consciousness Revolution. It was an awakening…
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As a Gen X, I was not a huge fan of The Beatles growing up. They came onto the music scene in the early 1960’s. By 1970, the band had broken up and went their separate ways. However last weekend I was going through some old 33 rpm LP albums, and found this gem. The…
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Ah yes. It’s been quite a month, America. How are we feeling? One of my favorite scenes from the Animal House movie is at the very end when the Delta House, after being expelled from Faber College, sends the parade crowd into a panic. Ramming Speed! The panic is starting to rise as the second…
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Long time no see. It seems the whole world is coming apart (and it is). In the next series of blog posts, I will attempt to address multiple layers of history and social / economic cycles to explain what’s happening in our world, focused on the waves of change and where we might be going.…
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Van Halen – 1978 – back then it was all about love, or the lack thereof. So here we are, 2022. Standing on the edge, looking down… Welcome to the end of retirement perhaps as your parents and older friends have done. As a Gen X, I believe we were built for this time and…
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U.S. adults aged between 21 and 38 years old will prioritize “necessity spending” over the next decade, Bill Smead told CNBC on Monday. — Read on www.cnbc.com/amp/2019/10/14/millennials-to-trigger-changeover-point-for-the-us-economy-bill-smead-says.html
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1965… to 2015. It is when the first Generation X children reach age 50. I like the “Back to the Future” series. Marty McFly takes a DeLorean “time machine” to the Past to fix the Present, then in the second episode, he goes to the Future to fix the Future and finally goes to Past to fix…
GenX Turns Fifty 