2. During the 1920s, the younger generation
rejected the values and moral code of its
elders, and because the establishment of
substitute values takes time, this was a decade
without manners, morals, or happiness.
3. Because the younger generation had
overthrown the previous moral code and
couldn’t easily replace it with new manners
and morals, it became obsessed with the
pursuit of short-lived pleasure to fill the gap
that the revolution had created, leaving people
unhappy and seeing life as meaningless.
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