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The Premier Culture and Lifestyle Magazine of the Western Hemisphere Hemisphere - Natalian Edition
Now published in Sollegan, Engell, German, Carian and Neo-Tiburan - 20 Quris
Composed by Eva Varela
The winter break is now in full swing and students from all over Callao, Santa Fe, San Juan or Heredia are enjoying a a sweet 3 week break to return to their normal shape after being mangled by the exams before returning to the 2nd semester. But today's students coming together in places such as the Rambla in Callao or the Mia Prats Square in Heredia or the golden beaches in Puntarenas, on the shores of the Implarian aren't your typical guys and gals just happy that the exams are over. No, behind the parties with good music, cheap beer and smoking joints, one can find a political consciousness which you haven't really seen in the nation since the late 1960s.
This human be-in that we see today has been described by the hawkish and conservative press as a "national convention of beach hobos" but today's students are taking a stand for they don't want to see their brothers and sisters and friends fighting in Pannonia or Germania. Many or them are disgusted by the continuous state of tension coming the East, in Gallo-Germania and many are even more disgusted that the Ranchero government has pushed Natal to become the most hawkish nation in the western hemisphere.
Between them are members of the NRA, the National Republican Association, militating for the de-colonisation of Himyar and for the replacement of traditional chiefdoms with free and democratic republics and of the SDS, the Students for a Democratic Society, which acts as union of student federations, fighting for cheaper education and for more autonomy for universities. They are all over the place, yet, they are just a radical minority.
The majority of them show that the younger generation doesn't want to follow on the footsteps of their ancestors and keep a vicious circle alive. They are there as a protest for their want a freer society that doesn't impose on them ideals and values that they see as reigning in on their individualism.
"I am just living. That is what I say to people who ask me what I do. I tell them I live. They don't understand. They think I am an idiot who didn't understood the question, but in reality, they didn't understand the answer. They can't imagine life without the aspiration to get money so they can consume. They don't understand that I enjoy my freedom and if I am to work, I will work for subsistence, not to just consume to the sake of consumption and own objects just to own them," stated one of the jolers as a reporter from Plaid Giraffe talked with him about their movement.
Many see those be-ins as a form of protest against Natalian presence in Loago, describing it as an illegal imperialist war, or against the Ahmari rule in Cabaon, condemning the Hippo administration for propping an absolutist regime. Others are revolted by the state of the Rehabilitation through Labour Scheme, condemning it as a way for the corporations to avoid paying upstanding citizens by leasing prisoner labour extremely cheap. Others are condemning the culture of consumption and waste that exists across the world and wish to see greater respect for the environment. Others are condemning the social nepotism that still exists in Natalian society and want to see it disappear. They are all very different, but they are brought together by their youth and their hope for a better world for the next generations.
They are revolutionaries wanting to make their mark felt this winter. But they are not the revolutionaries that have created the Constitutional State of Touzen, or the Kadikistani Union, no, they are revolutionaries of thought. The world is be a better place by changing mentalities. They are ready to fight for love and peace, "they greatest drugs" as they call them and they are happy to do it.
"I see the future communal. That is the only way to go forward in respect to the planet itself. You see, Harton is the 3rd most agglomerated city in the world. It feels that half the time, travelling through the city is just one huge traffic jam. Do we really need all those cars? Most of them have only the driver in them and no passengers? Do we really need that? We need to escape all this rat race, all the stress and living in match boxes so we can really enjoy our humanity and community," state some other joler.
Let it be known that the Long, Hot Winter of love and peace has started and that the next generation has learned from the mistakes of their parents and ancestors and instead of continuing what they see as wrongs, they are ready to put a stop to them all.
OTHER ARTICLES:
- SoNat Sounds: How the acoustic guitar, drums and flutes are revolutionising music;
- The New World that needs to be: an Essay by NRA Chairman Simba Sibanda;
- The Loago War Aesthetic: why the stories of returning soldiers can start an artistic current about dehumanisation and manipulation;
- Organic Gardening: Tips from the woman who started it all, Unathi Khumalo;
- Microhomes: a revolutionary way of living the good life, close to nature;
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