The thing I only realized about GenX this weekend is that our small numbers really influenced what we think of as cultural touchstones. Everything from Ghostbusters to D&D to Pearl Jam to TMNT took the world by storm partially because it was a smaller world.

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@xinjinmeng yeah but this was never really underground and does a batch of vague nerdy sacred cows count as cultural hegemony?

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Things like D&D started small, but then got big. These days, there's a lot of effort spent to convince people that nothing new need be made.

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