Lost and found is my eureka! blog, my rediscovery of my short fiction and poetry submissions published in literary magazines and university literary journals some decades ago. Interspersed, occasionally, with more recent, hitherto unpublished pieces.
Have I then, in my dotage, missed something truly fundamental in the zeitgeist of teen angst and generational polarization? Is morose denial and belligerent waywardness of social mores truly the current badge of honour among the young, intransigently suffering, never seen in an earlier agrarian society?
The pathology and delusion appears to have become a universal affliction, somehow infecting the societally empowered the spoiled generation of the privileged, anon. Their voraciously grim and gloomy dissatisfaction and estrangements volatile and threateningly explosive.
In discarding the yoke of direction and expectation they have imputed to intolerable interference of their sovereignty of self, denying the dictates of adults urging them to conform to values whose worth they dispute, they have themselves evolved through a process of militant rejection and obstinate demands, the world's new class of tyrants.
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