The contemporary 'Flaming Youth' has become more revolutionary than that of the early 20th Century, when this literary term first caught public attention, but it seems to me an evolutionary development of the anarchic and hedonistic spirit of the 'Roaring Twenties".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roaring_twenties
http://www.kissfaq.com/singles/usa/usa_nb_858_cover-front.jpg
As the [bourgeois] 'Ah Youth!' virus spread to Greece around 1973:
http://www.ahistoryofgreece.com/november17.htm
And continues to thrive:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/12/11/europe/EU-Greece-Riots.php
'Youth' as a Nationality or Collective Identity?
http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/14/news/letter.1-407193.php
Physis kai Paidea:
http://hellenicantidote.blogspot.com/2008/12/castoriadis-and-thucydides-on-greek.html
But 'anarchy' already had a 'black & red' previous history in Greece:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anarchism_in_Greece
"Our democracy is self-destructing, because it abused the right to freedom and equality, because it taught people to consider impudence as a right, illegality as freedom, rudeness as equality and anarchy as happiness." - Isocrates
http://people.morehead-st.edu/fs/w.willis/isocrates.html
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