The year is 2017 and my goodness some events have occurred over the past few years, from the proverbial piss off to the establishment that was seen during the events of the 2016 European Union 'Brexit' referendum, to the somewhat questionable choices and results that came from the 2017 Snap general election in the UK and the final round of the French presidential election of the same year. It has certainly been interesting to witness such political events as many describe the aspects of the past few years as once in more than a few generations.
I feel lucky to have seen this. Well, i feel lucky to watched the arguments on twitter that came out of it.
From speaking to my various subject teachers at school, whilst questioning their professional duty to remain impartial, they too were unnerved at the politics of the day, mainly due to them working under government control so they were mostly concerned about if they could pay for their 2nd holiday in full, at time of purchase or not. Dis-regarding this my 'teachers' seemed both elated and worried at our opinions on politics. elated because they were happy to see young people involved in politics and current news, they felt as though themselves as a teacher had accomplished something. Though they were worried due to the pro-trump, pro-communist (mainly Stalin over Trotsky) and humorous approach that some students had to parties, if you can call them that, such as Britain First and EDL that had influenced pupils due to the massive use of social media on their behalf.
This caused them to feel dis-heartened and upset and as though they had failed, especially the history teachers, but i saw this as a success. Of course i don't mean the fact that pupils found racist parties funny, though the majority of them of course did not actually like the racist parties but laughed at them for trying to do what they were doing in the 21st century.
Furthermore rising from the ashes of political uncertainty, like Conchita Wurst at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, something good, admirable and enjoyable came from the tumultuous politics that all the nations across the world had endured and tortuously listened to and watched, MEMEs.
The saving grace of the uncertainty that was created was the fact that the aptly named 'Millenials' and my own 'Generation Z ' had their own fun when it came to politics that they were shut out off and patronised by. They expressed their opinions through all mediums and modes including the marvelously meticulous memes. Ranging from right wing memes, to the furthest left but also the dead centre of the spectrum. This is how many young people became invigorated by a type of politics that shut them out.
Thank you for reading my first ever blog post, i hope and partially assume that you enjoyed it and would like more of this type of post.
Thank you,
James Fishwick
The following are examples of political memes, i have sourced the pictures in a way that displays where i found the memes, i do not own any of these. https://www.facebook.com/politicalbible/
I feel lucky to have seen this. Well, i feel lucky to watched the arguments on twitter that came out of it.
From speaking to my various subject teachers at school, whilst questioning their professional duty to remain impartial, they too were unnerved at the politics of the day, mainly due to them working under government control so they were mostly concerned about if they could pay for their 2nd holiday in full, at time of purchase or not. Dis-regarding this my 'teachers' seemed both elated and worried at our opinions on politics. elated because they were happy to see young people involved in politics and current news, they felt as though themselves as a teacher had accomplished something. Though they were worried due to the pro-trump, pro-communist (mainly Stalin over Trotsky) and humorous approach that some students had to parties, if you can call them that, such as Britain First and EDL that had influenced pupils due to the massive use of social media on their behalf.
This caused them to feel dis-heartened and upset and as though they had failed, especially the history teachers, but i saw this as a success. Of course i don't mean the fact that pupils found racist parties funny, though the majority of them of course did not actually like the racist parties but laughed at them for trying to do what they were doing in the 21st century.
Furthermore rising from the ashes of political uncertainty, like Conchita Wurst at the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest, something good, admirable and enjoyable came from the tumultuous politics that all the nations across the world had endured and tortuously listened to and watched, MEMEs.
The saving grace of the uncertainty that was created was the fact that the aptly named 'Millenials' and my own 'Generation Z ' had their own fun when it came to politics that they were shut out off and patronised by. They expressed their opinions through all mediums and modes including the marvelously meticulous memes. Ranging from right wing memes, to the furthest left but also the dead centre of the spectrum. This is how many young people became invigorated by a type of politics that shut them out.
Thank you for reading my first ever blog post, i hope and partially assume that you enjoyed it and would like more of this type of post.
Thank you,
James Fishwick
The following are examples of political memes, i have sourced the pictures in a way that displays where i found the memes, i do not own any of these. https://www.facebook.com/politicalbible/
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