Where is our generation’s saviour?

I can’t seem to find sense from anyone but the Rubberbandits and Russell Brand. Surely that’s an issue?

Between the two countries I currently call home, there isn’t much inspiration to be found (for me, anyway) from any mainstream or establishment outlet. We really seem to be living in a leaderless age. I ran a poll about a week ago on my Instagram asking you guys who you thought could/would be the leaders of the future and honestly, I wasn’t too surprised at how small the interaction was.

I felt like this issue had to be addressed somehow. Why, do the young people of Ireland and the UK find themselves so underrepresented in today’s society? As a follow on from one of last week’s posts, I want to know why, no matter how hard we battle against the neoliberal agenda slowly creeping into our everyday lives, do the wheels never come off the bus?

We aren’t important enough in the places we live, it seems.

Enter a parody music producer/ broadcast comedian, Blindboy Boatclub. In Ireland, he’s made a name for himself of late in being the country’s most popular human (maybe second to Conor McGregor at the moment) through his social activism and educated thoughts on all things unjust in Irish society; from rent, to salad. It’s reflective of the times when the country relies on a man with a plastic bag covering his face for answers on the state of the nation and how to counteract it, but maybe its something that the establishment in Ireland needs to realise: ‘we aren’t ignoring the stuff you’re imposing on our home and we will not stand for it. Either stand up for us, or stand against us.’

With the Irish activists hanging on the every word of a comedian for direction, we can see the same trend here in the UK. Russell Brand has reinvented himself in recent years to produce an alternative news channel, The Trews.

Basing on YouTube, Brand has recieved millions of interactions through his work speaking on politics and social issues and has has some remarkable political figures even appearing on his podcast. Russell Brand has been so successful in his activism that many in the UK credit him for many young people registering to vote in the 2017 UK general election, resulting in a massive boost for the Labour (left) party’s support.

I wonder why the people we can trust in the world are the ones that aren’t in power. Why do we all mistrust power and authority so much that we would rather be guided by popular and counter culture in our uprising against regression?

Maybe popular opinion is the most logical opinion, but if this is the case, why do the people in power not share the ‘popular opinion’?

I hope you all appreciate this brain fart of a Monday evening, but I had to chuck it out there. I am one of the people that actually like these guys as leaders of tomorrow, although I am kind of disheartened that the establishment don’t currently think the way they do.

This topic is also something we’ve never tackled in the Two Pints podcast funnily enough! We’ve been so busy talking shite about other stuff this passed right below the radar. Listen to any shows you’ve missed here.

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‘Til next time x