Every parent probably thinks it applies to their kids, but there
really was a group known as “The Lost Generation”.

It was the time right after WWI, the war to end all wars. This was
the era that ended major monarchies and established new democracies.
It heralded the electronic media. It was the era where women were
seeking civil equality and unions were seeking economic equality.
Business was king and the industrial revolution was at its peak.

A group of talented authors and artists wrote about their feelings
of alienation. In part, their disillusionment was a result of
observing and surviving the horrific carnage caused by the Great War
and its mechanized lethal weapons, which had been spawned by the
industrial revolution.

Many of these authors chose to be expatriates in France between WWI
& WWII. They were rebellious and sought to end Victorian ideas. They
wanted to end censorship of sexuality and profanity and they included
Freudian ideas in their characters. “The Lost Generation” included
Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, John Dos Passos, Henry Miller and
F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Gertrude Stein is credited with coining the phrase “The Lost
Generation”.