In a time when it’s become trendy to mock or write off younger generations as “brainrotted” or “hopeless,” I want to offer a different perspective, rooted in faith: faith in humanity, in individual potential, and in the transformative power of care.
Browsing: young people
Though it may seem it, due to the oversaturated governance of old white men talking about human rights and toxic nationalism, the world of politics is not as far away from your 20-something year old self as you may think.
This has brought us to today where union membership is at an all time low of 13%. Even more depressingly, this is an ageing membership. Statistics show that only 5% of union members are in their early 20s and a measly 2% are aged 15-19.
“We’re not invisible, we don’t want to be criminals, we’re just kids.”
Opposing neoliberalism, austerity and privatisation is important for the left, but our vision for the future is fundamentally disastrous if we only ask for what we once had.
A ground-breaking report at Stamford University has today demonstrated that the elderly are actually just older regular people. Rick Parsons,…