The Revolution Will be Memefied

I was born when the 1970s were kind of getting over, when revolutions were ending and the world was kind of settling in, and yet, wars surrounded us and rebellion seemed like an inheritance of sorts. The May 1968 revolt in France had those slogans. “I came. I saw. I believed.” (Mimicking veni, vidi, vici) We lived by them. We played outside. We were unafraid. The 1960s and the 1970s had many protests. We were those children of revolution. Free-spirited and uninhibited. We still can be brave at times in the face of betrayal.

- Chinki Sinha IS EDITOR, OUTLOOK MAGAZINE

"Well you can twist and shout Let it all hang out... But you won't fool, the children of the revolution No, you won't fool, the children of the revolution"

-'Children of the Revolution' by English rock band T. Rex, written by Marc Bolan, released in September 1972

We grappled with identity shifts like Gen Z. We grew up free, listening to rock bands and sporting punk hairstyles and, we weren't known to be cautious. We grappled with economic insecurity, social change, liberalisation, globalisation and many changes that meant that we were the threshold generation. Also, the vanguard generation.