The new youth’s justice
Everything that’s going on in the world is insane. I’ve tried to think of hundreds of possible ways of how this will be recorded in history. Oftentimes what seemed like an apocalypse, 100s of years later was a milestone in humanity’s never ending pursuit of perfection. Sometimes that is what confuses us. We don’t know what’s perfect. A perfect genetical build would be supporting eugenics and the nazis. A perfect equality system, while good in theory, only leads to the atrocious communism experienced in Russia and China. A perfect economic system, or at least the most dominant one, is based on the 1% and the labor of the have nots and is what we call capitalism. Perfect democracy where there is proportional representation can lead to drastic polarization as people see no strong leader. While perfect leadership often ends up becoming a dictatorship. The only thing that one could agree on having to be perfect is the justice system.
Yet even here we have a split. The idea of perfect justice itself is one hard to answer and fundamentally split in its moral and ethical roots. Never will everyone agree on what would be just in a situation. Not because people are fundamentally bad or good, but rather because subconsciously they have a different moral perception of situations. And this morality is something that is evolving as the human shared knowledge evolves. I can assure you that most family feuds are rooted in this. What we as millennials think acceptable our parents find deplorable. What our parents find acceptable our grandparents found deplorable. But then why is the ethical and moral standard of a society determined by the morality of the grown ups? Maybe tradition and culture, where we look up to the chiefs and the kings. But if this is a democracy shouldn’t we all have a say in this substantial structural factor. Truth is it’s hard. It’s easier than before Instagram and Facebook. But it’s difficult nonetheless when youth movements get turned down as millennial shit.
We as the globalized youth. As the young people of this world that have travelled and have a notion of what the privileged 21st century is. We need to define what our own morality is. We need to unite under what we define as our justice philosophy, and then through proposals and active involvement we need to enact that philosophy. We need to instill a legal system apt for this century, and systematically root out those that are sworn to protect it and yet don’t believe in it. Protesting, marching and even rioting raises awareness, regardless of its quality. But what brings changes are laws and their enforceability. There are laws to protect against looting and so the authority is in their right to stop us by any means necessary, and those that enforce the law are willing to do so. But those laws that are in place to protect us against violence or racism. Those laws are not enforced because those that should don’t fell the urge to do so. This isn’t just for racism. This is for the things we believe in. They say we don’t have a conscience and are the children of the sun and of a blessed generation. We are able to see truths that you can’t. You call social media a curse but the truth is it empowers US. We would not remember George Floyd, or any of the victims for that matter. We would not be moved by music from LeBrons son, Jcole or Joey badass. We would not be concerned with the atrocities worldwide.
Social media’s biggest factor are trends, and the youth has made civic engagement the biggest trend of all. We really have an opportunity to change things if make this trend lead to transofrmation.