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Lost Generation

Post by goodboyCerberus » Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:39 pm

Tyler Durden, [i]Fight Club (1999)[/i] wrote:God damn it, an entire generation pumping gas, waiting tables; slaves with white collars. Advertising has us chasing cars and clothes, working jobs we hate so we can buy shit we don't need. We're the middle children of history, man. No purpose or place. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. Our Great War's a spiritual war... our Great Depression is our lives. We've all been raised on television to believe that one day we'd all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars. But we won't. And we're slowly learning that fact. And we're very, very pissed off.
We are a lost generation. You should accept that.

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Re: Lost Generation

Post by Animavore » Sun Feb 28, 2010 11:43 pm

Sounds like Laci (gogreen18)?

Is it?
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Re: Lost Generation

Post by goodboyCerberus » Mon Mar 01, 2010 1:04 am

I don't think so, its from the American Association of Retired Persons.

It seems I'm feeling rebellious today...

http://b.imagehost.org/view/0089/anarchy
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Re: Lost Generation

Post by Reverend Blair » Tue Mar 02, 2010 4:25 am

That lost generation...the one written about in Fight Club or Generation X, as Douglas Copeland called it...is hardly an anomaly though. Our parents came from a weird little half generation that was lost between the "Greatest Generation" and the Baby Boomers. Our grandparents came of age just as the Depression was hitting, being too young to have experienced the "Roaring 20's" and too old to be part of the generation defined by WWII, and so on.

Are we, now in our 40's, a lost generation? Yeah, mostly. So what though? Everybody gets lost once in a while.

Besides, I got to grow up in a time and place where the Boomers left their drugs laying about for us and sex didn't kill. Not a bad way to be lost, all in all.

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Re: Lost Generation

Post by feign_ignorence » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:24 pm

goodboyCerberus wrote:I don't think so, its from the American Association of Retired Persons.

It seems I'm feeling rebellious today...

http://b.imagehost.org/view/0089/anarchy
WTF!




As to the video: i immediately thought gogreen as well ;D
Nice message anyhow

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Re: Lost Generation

Post by maiforpeace » Tue Mar 02, 2010 9:40 pm

feign_ignorence wrote:
goodboyCerberus wrote:I don't think so, its from the American Association of Retired Persons.

It seems I'm feeling rebellious today...

http://b.imagehost.org/view/0089/anarchy
WTF!
Indeed - I didn't see that the first time. Office anarchy! :mob:
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Re: Lost Generation

Post by Comte de Saint-Germain » Tue Mar 02, 2010 11:54 pm

Oh no, I'm not going to be famous. The advertisement lied to me. Lost generation? A generation of whiny bitches, more like it. I have fought all my life, and I have been fought all my life; by conformism, by people that mocked and derided me to feel a bit better about their own petty insecurities or whatever resentful bitchy-ism drove them to be so petty. In those fights I have never lost and will never lose. I shall trample these zombie hordes underneath my boot-heel and by the end you will know me by the crushing sound of my gait.

I don't need - I don't want a generation. I don't need - I don't want a shallow Eden of sitting around a fire doing nothing that never existed. I need - and I want the taste of blood on my lips, a rifle in my hand, and twenty thousand corpses in my wake. You think barring office doors and fucking a fat woman is anarchy? Where in your petty fantasy is the asthmatic boy who needs the pharmaceutical industry or the Haitian girl depending on relief support? You preach more death and destruction than I do, but because I am vicious, because I enjoy my bayonet - I'm sick, and you're idealistic. I wiggle my toes in the entrails of honourably slain enemies and you sit on your kitchen island whilst the oilblack blood fills your two-thousand dollar tiled floor and I should be stopped just so you, when the Mexican who has less healthcare than your pet has wiped your floor, can go to your bed and turn around at night in your illusory safety.

I'm in your bedroom with an army of hatchet-wielding motherfuckers. We're no generation and we're certainly not lost.
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Re: Lost Generation

Post by fordo » Wed Mar 03, 2010 12:11 am

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