For as long as we have collective memory, governments and their adversaries have been sending our youth into the jaws of death called war. It is an old conversation: how do we sacrifice our young for our freedom?
The oxymoron of “war to end all wars” has not come to pass because violence usually only begets more of the same, the way all energy forms replicate on multiple scales.
The new conversation that we need to invite is: how do we as adults, finally acting with collective wisdom and maturity, engage all youth on the planet in the creation of economies that do not require violence for their thrivancy? How do we put to use their imaginations, ideological passions, and thirst for freedom to make this possible? How can we make memorial days spaces where new conversations become possible?
