It was Ernest Hemingway's pal Gertrude Stein, according to Wikipedia, who look her car to a Parisian shop to have some work done. Unimpressed by the repair, she complained to the shop owner, who then yelled at his young mechanic: "You are all a generation perdue!" - a lost generation. Those in their 20s and 30s today aren't suffering from collective PTSD brought on by WWI, since many of them didn't go to war, but they probably have played enough "Call of Duty" that they'll think they did 40 years from now.
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