We believe that everything has already been done, already tried and failed (or worst succeeded). Our generation is a cynical one.
Contrary to our parents who were born in days when it was custom to make love not war, we were raised in constant awareness, slightly afraid about love and the art of making it.
Their generation was doing drugs to experiment, expand their minds while we just try to escape our lives.
When Mick Jagger sang "It's time for Palace revolution" in The Rolling Stones "Street Fighting Man" (Beggars Banquet) it was a direct reflection of the alarmed angst that led to the student riots in the streets of Paris in may 1968.
"We all want to change the world, but when you talk about destruction, don't you know that you can count me out, in..."
They had anthems has a proper reflection of their feeling of dismissed opinions, voice, uncertainties and they weren't scared to scream and make themselves heard.
It feels like WE have lost just about every ounce of credibility towards our rights, our believes, our humanity.
They believed that they could change the system, change a self-righteous establishment (any establishment is a self-righteous one) when we are just painfully blasé.
The great artists of the twentieth century have lived, created, demolished, reconstructed, exploded, enlightened our minds, inspired us and we have "drank to them, to their health."
We are on the verge of complete destruction, for the worst an artistic meltdown, so what's left for our generation to do, feel, experience and fight for.
I don't have the adequate words to express my stubborn (contradictory) optimism so I'd like to quote a rather savvy mind instead of my uneducated self:
"Some artists have understood that the world is not going to end soon, that the twenty first century is going to be an extraordinary time, and that the time is now to begin imagining what direction the human community may go in."
Sir Martin Rees, Royal Astronomer
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