environmentalism

Lost Generation

Note: watch video before reading rant

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.

Hi all - please sign this petition demanding that Elizabeth May - leader of the Green party - participate in the electoral debates. Along with being inconvenient not being able to hear the Green's position on a number of important issues, it is also a miscarriage of electoral justice.

Also I will be angry if you don't, though not as angry as our friends the dolphins.

What if you lived by the largest body of fresh water in the world but could no longer afford to use it?

In Liz Miller’s video documentary “The Waterfront� residents of Highland Park, a struggling community on the shores of Lake Michigan are shown looking with distress at water bills in amounts between 3 and 9000 dollars.

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