So early to recall: The spirit of the 1960s

Author: Liu Langui Lingling
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Publish Date: 2005-06-01
Features: They are the "nameless generation," the ignored generation, the "eggs under the red flag," the remnants of the red era, the descendants of the agricultural age, the observers and reference points of history, the excess of the excessive era, the last generation intertwined with words like youth, ideals, passion, responsibility, life, and the meaning of life. They have no flags, slogans, or manifestos; they will not form a strong social force or create their own discourse system and cultural authority. They are silent, lonely,, melancholic, drifting, alienated, and detached, distant from the present, the past, and the future, like wandering souls without a home, a generation of drifters. They are the aimless passengers easily left behind by the vast era train on strange, nameless stations, possessing only the faint of the rumbling train receding into the distance and their fragmented memories. Therefore, at the cusp of middle age, they can only retreat into their fragile and sensitive inner depths, "feeling for the past," and prematurely enter the river of nostalgia. They start reminiscing so early. They are the "nameless generation," the ignored generation, the "eggs under the red flag," the remnants of the red era, the descendants of the agricultural age, the observers and reference points of history, the excess of the excessive era, the last generation intertwined with words like youth, ideals, passion, responsibility, life, and the meaning of life. They have no flags, slogans, or manifestos; they will not form a strong social force or create their own discourse system and cultural authority. They are silent, lonely,, melancholic, drifting, alienated, and detached, distant from the present, the past, and the future, like wandering souls without a home, a generation of drifters. They are the aimless passengers easily left behind by the vast era train on strange, nameless stations, possessing only the faint of the rumbling train receding into the distance and their fragmented memories. Therefore, at the cusp of middle age, they can only retreat into their fragile and sensitive inner depths, "feeling for the past," and prematurely enter the river of nostalgia. They start reminiscing so early.