- Sun Apr 28, 2019 8:56 pm
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I just met a rather decent chap, Charlie, while smoking outside our regular Sunday haunt. He's an English lad and, inevitably, wanted to talk a bit about Brexit.
The conversation, as is the way with half way intelligent people, moved on from the usual - Farage etc etc.
It turns out that we have kids who are basically the same age and that La Thunberg, whilst being two years their junior, is rocket fuel for a new and multi-faceted sense of engagement.
Something has to change and we are just too failingly old and too stale in our thinking to deliver it. The clarity of this emerging cohort is a breath of fresh air, even if they are perhaps still getting to grips with the narrative.
Charlie and I agreed that the best we can do is to get out of the way and let these kids formulate their argument from the ground up and build something fit for purpose. Social, political, economic and all within the screaming imperative of climate catastrophe. We're all ears.
Millennials are a busted, semi-skimmed, lactose-free flush. Y and Z had it so easy hanging on the property speculation coat tails of the remnants of the post-war settlement. They are part of the problem.
Generation Zero. Discuss.
The conversation, as is the way with half way intelligent people, moved on from the usual - Farage etc etc.
It turns out that we have kids who are basically the same age and that La Thunberg, whilst being two years their junior, is rocket fuel for a new and multi-faceted sense of engagement.
Something has to change and we are just too failingly old and too stale in our thinking to deliver it. The clarity of this emerging cohort is a breath of fresh air, even if they are perhaps still getting to grips with the narrative.
Charlie and I agreed that the best we can do is to get out of the way and let these kids formulate their argument from the ground up and build something fit for purpose. Social, political, economic and all within the screaming imperative of climate catastrophe. We're all ears.
Millennials are a busted, semi-skimmed, lactose-free flush. Y and Z had it so easy hanging on the property speculation coat tails of the remnants of the post-war settlement. They are part of the problem.
Generation Zero. Discuss.
Jack believed in the inherent goodness of humanity, and felt a deep social responsibility to protect that. Through us all, Jack marches on.