NORTHERN PLANNER

Thanks to the newspaper project, naturally I’ve been thinking about what really matters to people and how to include them in politics, espescially the young and by happy coincidence I found this at PSFK. Myspace US is launching a competition called where members post a 60 second film of their views on the state of America and what needs to change.

It seems a million miles smarter than Webcameron, which strikes me as thinly veiled propaganda, viewed by the young as an old fart trying to be down with the kids (This anti-debt campaign is better, seeded on the web, but it’s still older people tell kids what to do).

Isn’t it a universal truth that the young think the old haven’t a clue? Espescially when it concerns what really matters to them. At the same time, social media and it’s endless niches mean that kids can shut out the adult world more than ever, and they have a very strong bullshit detector.  Asking them to tell US what we should do, on their terms makes a lot of sense. If they they’re not interested in our agenda, asking them to help us set it seems very credible,  and we may just learn something.