Thursday, 5 July 2012
Hello world...(or rather that miniscule portion of the world that would bother reading this) Hahaha!
So I was at a thing all of this week. Talking about the constitution and making submissions and shit. I found it very interesting. Both the sessions themselves and the gang taking part. You have all these youths present and it kinda shocked me just how conventional they were. Got me wondering... Where are all the agnostics and atheists? The socialists and the
communists? Hell, where are the anarchists and nihilists? Where are the
youths who are ready to die fighting injustice? Are they just lazy? Is it
apathy? Or are they just happy with the status quo? I got irritated at how these intellgient young people are singing one song and one song only. Got so irritating that I would have been happy if ONE person had stood up and said that they unequivocally supported Fiji being a xtian state. I guess the point I'm trying to make is that whenyou're young you're supposed to be a radical, you're supposed to act like you have ALL the solutions to ALL the problems of the world. It's supposed to be a period of headiness when all the world feels like your playground. you're supposed to think things that would HORRIFY the generation before you...instead what we seem to have are a group of young people who seem scared to break out. I actually asked some gang there if they thought that the concept of a nation-state was an archaic notion in our globalsied world and if we really needed something called "Fiji"? Jeepers it's like I said something dirty. Now understand, I brought this up as a thought experiment (although I kinda like the idea of total dissolution) but the reactions were what got me. If you're in your 20's and parroting 20th Century Western ideals then something has gone wrong somewhere. I even got exasperated enough to ask why none of them had organised widespread protests or espoused civil disobedience if they were so anti-government...And it's funny how some seemed to think that democracy is the magic bullet that will fix everything...jeepers...Where are the young people chanting revolutionary slogans? Where are the young people speaking out against capitalism? Where are the young people supporting militant environmentalism? Im an anarchist and I did my bit triyng to spread my message...too bad it felt like coming up against a brick wall.
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