god love the New York Times for putting and article about the death of the Lesbian commune in the "Fashion and Style" section.
After my rather uncharitable description of Baby-Boomers previously I would like to say that the Gay and Lesbian Boomers did do a fantastic job of naming oppression, struggling to change it, and living lives of principle according to the values they defined in the 60's, so I do not think that all Boomers are ethically bankrupt, just some of them.
Lost Generation actually refers to a group of American writers who lived in Paris after the First World War. These writers were looking for a more cosmopolitan and cultured way of life, seeing America as being market-driven, vapid, without a soul etc.. The Lost Generation were a set of oddly passionate, romantic and intellectual wordsmiths, who picked up stakes and moved somewhere they could drink wine in the morning and let the cat do the babysitting.
So, this new (lost) generation, who are *?* are either apathetic money-driven isolates, or principled to an astounding degree, and wholeheartedly believe in the values of marriage, and family. It's a schizophrenic juxtaposition to be sure, and suggests that whoever is doing the believing here is going through a pretty major ideological crisis.
The nice thing about the Lost Generation, (and perhaps this is only available as an analysis after all the books have been published, the memoirs written and the movie-adaptions made) is that they were people who struggled with their identity as what many continentals considered upstart Americans, and their desire to live creative, non-conforming lives. Their apparent apathy (at least apathy in the puritanical up at 7 to get to work sense) and refusal to commit to values they disliked was not laziness, it was protest, their passion was not a public global thing, it was a private desire to create a lifestyle and ethics that were not available to them at home. In fact the Lost Generation were America's first born and raised Bohemians, and that makes them kind of wonderful.
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