| | Brandon, my use of the phrase "lost generation" was intended to portray a generation, many of whom, are being lost into the collectivist movement, rather than grasping a significant understanding of individualism. And those few that would stumble into individualism, given the popular media and the govt. schools, aren't likely to sustain and develop it for their life - not in a significant way. Given the degree of this generation's response to peer pressure, it would be a real uphill battle.
History moves in generations, more than events - events are more the effects that get taught as history's markers. Ideas are history's cause, generations are the units in the flow of time as the people in a generation act on the ideas from earlier periods, and the events are just what we see sticking up out of the flow, like rocks in stream.
Each generation passes on to the next a mixture of values and beliefs and skills. And cultures can decline rapidly given generational 'failures'. This kind of 'failure' is always two sided. The older generation fails in their educational and cultural transmission systems. And the new generation doesn't aggressively take an education. Things don't go forward and simply disappear.
Then, from a less cogent future, there are fewer tools that will let that future generation look back and see what wasn't passed forward.
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"When President Obama was running, I was telling all my neighbors we have to get out and vote," said Thompson. "And it's not just because he's black... well, yes, it is because he's black. I'm not going to tell a lie. It's because he's black. I'm black!" But is being black enough for President Obama this time around? For Carol Thompson and every View Park resident I spoke with, it is.
