In my observation, a big part of social progress is each generation pointing out the hypocrisy of the previous. “All men are created equal” so how can you enslave black people? If men can vote, why can’t women? How come straight people can marry but gay people can’t? How is it fair to send an 18 year old to war but not let him vote?
A lot of these hypocrisies were so internalized that a lot of people of previous generations never even thought about them. It was like a mental blind spot. It took young people with fresh thinking to point them out and fight to fix them.
So, speaking as a Millenial, I’m asking what my generation’s blind spots are. What injustices are we perpetuating without even thinking much about it?
For reference, Millenials are currently in their late 20s to early 40s. Not running the world, but also not fresh eyed college grads.
We fought, we argued, we protested and we got some shit changed, some attitudes evolved but we got older and we got on with making the best of a bad situation. Like EVERY GENERATION BEFORE US.
How many of the diehard peace and love hippies who were at woodstock arent angry old boomers now? How many of them kept up the fight their whole lives? How many of Generation X are still “Xtreem”? people get old.
Its the Zoomers time to shine now, I have a child to provide for and raise into a confident young woman who demands changes herself.