...wasn't just on Gen X'ers.  It was felt universally even by people who paid no heed to it until it bit them on the ass (like me, for example)

As in all "soft" sciences (Gawd how I hate that term, but there it is) like anthropology, sociology, political science, there are few absolutes.

I wouldn't take the these predictives as set in stone.  There does, however, seem to be a cycle and a correlation (sp?).  Since my background is in History I'm a bit loathe to speculate much further w/o risking a misstatement