Generation Y includes all people born between 1980 and the beginning of the year 2000 and are called millennials.
These so-called « pragmatic idealists » are at the turning of their life, leaving their childhood and entering in the ups and downs of adult world.
In these photos, they are staring at us. Clearly. They leave behind a pronounced blur, this society that we bequeath them. Despite our unability to explain to them how we reach this vagueness, even these aberrations, they express no fear, no repugnance. At worst some malice, some questioning. Understandably since the future that presents to them is as uncertain as the world we are leaving them is incoherent.
From generation to generation, tune remains: “it is up to them to build the future”. With what weapons?
With our values of freedom, fraternity and equality that power-hungry manipulative politicians have disguised into terror of the peril of the difference to hide their own mistakes?
By our consumption logics through which we do not want to see that we devour and ravage nature beyond our borders thanks to permissive states waiting for I do not know which weapons or which planes from us.
Or by the commitment to work, whose promise was individual fulfilment and collective solidarity – promised by Durkheim under the term organic solidarity – and which capitalistic extremism has casually converted into social dumping, a form of industrialized and competitive global slavery that drains individual resources and leads to protectionism.
Fortunately, despite this heavy heritage, they are looking for themselves. They wonder. They are building themselves. They balance between continuing our funeral work and inventing a new one.
The 15-puzzle is a metaphor for their personal construction. Sam Loyd, a 19th century American chess player who popularized this type of sliding puzzle, claimed that he had “driven the whole world crazy” with a modified puzzle. Indeed, one proved that among all initial combinations, there are as many combinations whose resolution is possible and as many that are impossibles.
The photos presented here question both the complexity of inventing a new paradigm for the Earth and the uncertainty into building themselves, that should allow them to be stronger to pass the coming challenges.
Will they succeed? We all hope so.
As each generation has pinned its hopes on the next one to build a better world.
These millennials are staring at us. Clearly. Despite our unability to explain to them how we reach these aberrations in our society, they express no fear, no repugnance but some malice. Understandably since the future that presents to them is as uncertain as the world we are leaving them is incoherent.
From generation to generation, tune remains: “it is up to them to build the future”. With what?
With our values of freedom, fraternity and equality that manipulative politicians have disguised into terror of the peril of the difference to hide their own mistakes?
By our consumption logics through which we do not want to see that we ravage the nature?
Or by the commitment to work that capitalistic extremism has casually converted into a form of WW slavery that drains individual resources and leads to protectionism.
The 15-puzzle is a metaphor for their personal construction. One proved that among all initial combinations, there are as many combinations whose resolution is possible and as many that are impossibles.
The photos presented here question both the complexity of inventing a new paradigm for the Earth and the uncertainty into building themselves.
Will they succeed? We all hope so.
As each generation has pinned its hopes on the next one to build a better world.
