Lost Generation

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Because maybe there was that period where they were denied something because they wanted a black female writer or, you know, kind of like the Lost Generations piece.

Like, again, in the piece, I say there was a time where that did happen.

It's not forever.

Now, if you don't think so, consider what happened from the late 1950s to the late 1970s as one generation replaced another at each phase of life.

In elderhood, the cautionary individualists of the lost generation born 1884 to 1900 were replaced by the hubristic GI generation.

born 1901 to 1924, who launched America into an expansive era of material affluence, global power, and civic planning.

In midlife, the upbeat GIs were replaced by the helpmate silent generation, born from 1925 to 1942, who applied their expertise and sensitivity to fine-tune the institutional order while mentoring the passions of youth.

Replace Jerry Mathers with Tatum O'Neill.

You see, this top-to-bottom alteration of the American life cycle tells much about why and how America shifted from a mood of consensus, complacency, and optimism to one of turbulence, argument, and extreme passion.

The lost generation, ladies and gentlemen, are called the nomad.

Born 1883 to 1900, These people grew up amidst urban blight, unregulated drug use, child sweatshops, and massive immigration.

Yeah.

Um, but, um, some classes I really enjoyed, you know, like, uh, the, the, the ones where we, uh, were studying about the, uh, the 20th century Lost Generation, you know, those authors.

I, I love that kind of stuff.

That was fun.