Are we the lost generation?

Question

I am 27 years old and feel dis-illusioned. When our generation was being raised we felt like the world would be a great place to live. Today's younger generation is used to all this madness of materialism and random acts of violence. The older generation saw a lot of great history take place. Peple that were born between 75-80 have seen nothing that great, only seeing the demise of the american dream. I feel like everything we were promised was a lie.

Answer 1

Im 19 and from the UK and often feel like our generation is mis represnted and lost in the sense that we value material things more because of the realisation of what other people have thruogh the like likes of mtv cribbs ect, but we in the UK there are not enough oppotunities when we leave school, if we arnt acedemic and or poor there are hardly any apprenticeships and or trainee positions and for some college is not an option, this mixed with what feels like economic decline and increased immigration and industriel outsourcing /increased inflation rates, makes me feel like theres going to be riots errupt all over. i dont think it will happen it just feels like we have nothing to look forward to anymore.

Answer 2

I think every generation has their share of people who feel lost. Sooo... in a sense, YES.

And YES, you have been lied to. We all have. But, that does not mean you must feel dis-illusioned forever.

You have the ability to LOOK and FIND things that are TRUE and MEANINGFUL.

Earth is a great place to live. And you can find ways to help reduce the amount of violence that's currently going on in the world.

Start locally. Join a group that's doing something aimed toward helping people to prosper.

Answer 3

Life isn't hard when you focus on the things you really need.

Forsake the illusion.

Strive for inner and outer peace (love).
Teach and inspire others to do the same.

That's really what life is about. If you wash everything else away, that's what you'll find that people want - peace and a good laugh every now and then. That's what YOU must focus on and try to achieve!

All the rest is just sub-parts of the big picture.

The bling and fame is only for entertainment purposes.
You work to feed and clothe yourself (and your family). If you love the work you do - that makes it even better.
You use any extra time and energy you have to help others or to please yourself in whatever way you see fit.
And violence deserves punishment.

This generation isn't lost. It just needs leaders who understand them and who don't worship fame, power, and money.

Answer 4

i'm sorry my newborn each and all of the stables in the wrestling area have been placed to relax. The conflict is over. It did no longer rely who won or lost. It in simple terms mattered that they gave in to me. For i'm the only survior. As human beings had executed throought the sands of time all stables gave in to the fad. WHAT is going UP ought to COME CRASHING DOWN.

Answer 5

I do agree, but I think we need to stand up and redefine ourselves. I am 28! We need to redefine ourselves as a generation of leaders and movers and shakers who are going to take back that dream and make it real again. Who aren't going to sit back and let the corporations and the rich men make all the decisions of the world for us, who are going to take back the American vote and make it truly fair and meaningful and equal!

Answer 6

I really don't think we need to be that desperate..I mean 50 yrs ago there were plenty of 20 somethings who thought that they were the lost generation especially with their dads dying in the world wars......a 100 yrs ago many of them were sold and 500 yrs ago they din't even have the freedom to think....so every period has its good and bad sides.. It just depends on what you look at.

Answer 7

The madness always was and you were dreaming through whole thing. I guess that's the problem with us Americans; we're always dreaming and see nothing of the squalor, poverty and infinite degradation. We are dreamie narcissists high on self importance. We think we own ourselves and that personal progress is realized on actualization of principle alone. The right to property is extendable, not an extended absolute; you earn that right according to the rules and contingents of the ruling class of the day.

Great things are happening continuously. That's existence. Don't forget the internet.

There is no random except for those created through human intent, evil.

'Nature engenders nature, and nature only, in its reproduction and in its life. The rose brings forth more roses, never anything ‘unnatural’ or ‘unrose-like’. The human being creates humanity, but with this difference: what is human can at the same time be either ‘human’ or ‘inhuman’. The results of human action range from creations which fill our hearts and souls with lasting strength and delight, to crimes whose shame no atonement can wipe off the face of the earth.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ge/bublitz.htm


Hegel
'The Phenomenology of Mind

C: Free Concrete Mind: (BB) Spirit

B. The Spirit in Self-Estrangement
I. b. Belief and Pure Insight (1)
Φ 527. THE spiritual condition of self-estrangement exists in the sphere of culture as a fact. But since this whole has become estranged from itself, there lies beyond this sphere the nonactual realm of pure consciousness, of thought. Its content consists of what has been reduced purely to thought, its absolute element is thinking. Since, however, thinking is in the first instance the element of this world, consciousness has merely these thoughts, but it does not as yet think them or does not know that they are thoughts: to consciousness they appear in the form of presentations, they are objects in the form of ideas. For it comes out of the sphere of actuality into that of pure consciousness, but is itself still to all intents and purposes in the sphere of actuality with the determinateness that implies. The conscious state of contrition and abasement is still essentially and inherently the self-identity of pure consciousness, not as a fact that itself is aware of but only as presented to us who are considering its condition.'

http://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/hegel/works/ph/phc2b1b.htm

Answer 8

I agree. I even find that alot of people in our generation (with college degrees), aren't even as successful our parents. Something we missed....I can't put a finger on it all, but we lost ourselves in bad hammer pants and didn't know what reality was until we grew up.

Answer 9

is there any doubt about that.