The new Lyricism

Ever had the feeling that you were born in the wrong time? Now, there seems to be a new generation, the Millenials, born after 1982 (The voice of the generation Obama)). They are optimistic, hopefull and committed to society. They support Obama and take as a general principle Kennedy's creed ' ask not what your country...' etc (Kennedy inauguration). The generation where i am a prisoner of got the stamp 'X': STOP HISTORY, permanently escaping from society, focused on dodging responsibility, anti-ideological, only indulging in complaining (about immigrants, government, bureaucracy, rules, work, realtionships, the high prices of goods). When listening to the Millenials i heard a lyricism that is immediately suspicious for the X'ers. In Le Rideau Kundera denounces lyricism, this youthfull simpleness, the bombastic opera-like activism, this immense get together. The novel is in essence a farewell to lyricism. See Don Quichot, the first novel, that explicitly makes fun of Don Quichot that wants to do good on a grand scale (Lost in la Mancha). The anti-lyricism of the novel fully realizes itself in the banality of reality tv (The Hills). The millenials prefer the New Testament. No time for joking. Ok then. Let's be a millenial. Let's go for unity. But just before that: let's take to justice those who promoted endless egoism with their free market blabla (The creation of the free market mythology). In my new found optimism i put away the novels i was reading (Don Quichot, part 2 and Chamoiseau, Sept Miseres) and took up a big history book: Postwar, a history of Europe since 1945. I read about the unification of the two Germany's, one of the defining moments in my life. Not much lyricism there: 'Rather than engage East-Germany's troubled history its former subjects were encouraged to forget it - an ironic replay of West Germany's own age of forgetting in the Fifties. And as in the early years of the Federal Republic, so after 1989: propsperity was to be the answer. Germany would buy its way out of history (p. 642-3).' It's time to say goodbye to the age of credit. Is Hope the new currency?