From the time the news broke on Twitter about the SCOTUS’ refusal to stay Troy Davis’ execution to the actual event occurring tonight, there were a cluster of other trending topics that I think forecasts a climate that needs to be talked about—essentially, “Simon Cowell”, “Cheryl Cole”, “LA Reid” and “#XFactor.” Granted tonight marked the much-hyped singing competition’s premiere on Fox, but singing competitions are a dime a dozen; the Supreme Court’s refusal to allow a man to continue his life when reasonable doubt continues to exist is not. And sure X Factor targets a younger demo, I can’t help but feeling that the disproportionate cluster of trending topics—swayed heavily towards Cowell’s newest American TV project—reflects an emerging disconnect between younger generations who are going to have to pick up the pieces of this country and the older generations who are bent on capsizing it by steering it towards every glacier imaginable. Or maybe this is my own projection right now—that there was no eleventh hour pardon by the President, that there was reasonable doubt, that a room full of people can, in clear conscience, deny one of their own the permission to keep on existing in spite of this doubt—these are all failures.
There is absolutely no way a person can teach younger generations to behave well towards their fellow man—nay, enforce it with laws—if they do an about-face and flout the same conventions.
It’s a rift between generations that I think will grow and grow and I think the only other time I heard of such a rift was Iran’s lost generation of intellectuals.
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