I speaking with a friend over a drink after my birthday meal. He is telling me that certain vintage video games consoles have doubled in value in less than a year. Ideas I've been having for a while condense around his words. My generation are in the ascension. We are reaching that point where we can decide what happens to us, around us. We are starting to get powerful, starting to shine. We are coming into the focus of the twenty year cycle.
The twenty year cycle hasn't been around long, since the late seventies I suppose. In fact I think it might be shortening. It couldn't exist without the speed at which our media progresses, and it stands to reason that as the media gets faster (blogs, the internet, email) the cycle will shorten. The cycle is the product of people growing up and having the disposable income to purchase the weird and wonderful things they have wanted since they were children, or to replace something they had as a child for that nostalgia.
It's an interesting time. What will we do with our new found power? What sections of our childhood pop culture will be resurected?