This is a rallying cry for justice and hope read by Naakow Grant-Hayford and written by Alex Carberry. Please share, like and discuss with your friends. We have to be the change that transforms our broken world.
Written as I was crashing, exhausted after going for months and was finally overtaken by exhaustion.
Yet, hope glimmers like a beacon in the distance. With the baton firmly clenched in the hands of Gen Z, they are running towards that finish line. And this could not be in safer hands. Look at what they have achieved! Their incredible and inspiring courage began at Columbia University and has since burst forth like a wave across the world, from Baghdad to Copenhagen. Student movements are forming a spearhead of the counterblast against this most horrifying onslaught against Palestinians, journalism, and free speech. For Palestinians, this is a second Nakba—everything is at stake. Meanwhile, students risk their education, safety, and careers. They are being brutally thrown off campuses, international students have had their visas revoked, and ambitions have been squashed. But it is their yearning for justice that remains their driving force.
These are your binoculars to peer into the future; what you do in this historical moment is your contribution to it. You might realize that for the sake of your career, mortgage, connections, and debt, you betrayed the political and moral future of your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Even if you are not aware of it, they are already all present with you in the blessed miracles that are our societies’ sons and daughters.
Jedi Mind Tricks enlighten us in their album, "The Bridge and the Abyss":
"There's absolutely no trick to looking
Back on the great injustices of our time
And condemning them, we understand that, we've got that
The trick is always to look at what we're doing today
As if we're at some point in the future looking back
And figure out what the oppressions and the
Injustices are that we're subject to today
And to get them out of our lives"
Even if you are making a killing, you will be morally and eternally bankrupt. But in the end, it is to them—your children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren—that you must hold yourself accountable. In the theater of your mind, how would you answer them? What did you do at this pivotal moment in our collective history? How would you explain what happens next?
If you have children who are amongst those standing up for justice and trying to stop a genocide, then we congratulate you. You have given us and our collective future a glorious, courageous, and noble gift.
Their answer to the Thanatos of our Thanotic world is to stand against the murderous maelstrom funded by our taxes with Eros in principled beauty. Meanwhile, the psychotic genocidal monsters, whose political careers our generation oversaw, brutalize our children for standing against the Armageddon-grade weapons-fueled genocide that has spilled Palestinian blood for decades. October 7th is but an act in this play; it is not its beginning.
Join us in exploring these urgent issues and the powerful movements led by the brave Gen Z. Listen to the full article to understand the stakes and the incredible courage of those who refuse to stand by in silence.
The Questioners of the Future