What comes after Z?
Do we start again at A?
Or do we assume it to be AA, like batteries for the
Remote [learning] Control on the coffee table?
The generation that is described as
TECHNOHOLIC…
Intoxicated by capital gain in the form of SELF absorption
Self Interest
No Interest in other
(At least on the surface)…
Where the mirror tells stories through Insta filters and Photoshop, that even they believe…both persons reflected back…the real and the fantastic…both reflected forward
We are witnessing the
Birth
of
A
New
Nation
A
New
Generation
Where people no longer greet with a handshake or a hug
Where people, perhaps even lovers, are afraid of their first kiss
Where people reclaim family dinners to save themselves from the tyranny of universal access to the internet
Where people say NO to Alexa and Siri and Big Brother because they are tired of being watched
Where school children are the beneficiaries of the parent lobby that refuses to endorse a day manipulated by politico-educators foreign to the ways of children
Where tests or the ever-expanding pursuit of more mean nothing because time, in front of people, with pages in solitude and reflection, surrender their gifts for those willing to invest it…
Where the parent lobby,
the teacher lobby,
the right lobby and the left
Demand their children, all children have mandatory recess, clean food, balanced assignments and multi-
culture
literacy
dimensional
play
Born after 2015, the new GENERATION will be NEW.
Joy Barnes-Johnson, Ph.D. 