Twitter and Facebook, the most popular communication tools of today, do so before the pamphlets were to overthrow dictators and twist the fate of nations.
late twentieth century, who lived then a teenager or youth were accused by their elders' apathetic ',' conformist ',' unbelievers', 'apolitical' and 'without ideologies. " The title of a popular book by Douglas Coupland published in 1991 - Generation X - was used to call this new generation.
A "Generation X" was followed by the "Generation Y" formed by those who lived through the rise of the Internet and developed due to the discrediting of political utopias, individualistic economic aspirations, as well as a more pragmatic view of the world. In both cases, it was very distant youth a strong desire to change reality. At that time
experiences had collapsed in Eastern Europe and stopped the progress of social democracy. The symbolic fall of the Berlin Wall was the work of a concerted plan between liberalism, the Church and led by the U.S. economic power before a spontaneous social impulse of the younger generation. Young people were just mere spectators of a set of changes that the political actors involved. And when they had decided to participate, as Tiana'anmen Square and the "Velvet Revolution" in Prague in 1989, have received wide repression.
Over the years, we could verify that after the historic trial to 'X' and 'Y' have been many prejudices. It is true that there was some truth in both the youth lived in a world where political ideologies and social utopias were not only discredited, but were unknown to most, but they were not totally numb and not the horror of the world I was, as they say, 'indifferent'.
The triumph of liberalism in the late twentieth century devoted another prejudice: that the model of Western democracy was irrelevant to the Muslim states, in which only could be expected to flourish dictatorships, backwardness and terrorist violence. Recent events in Tunisia, Egypt and other Muslim countries have thrown down the blindness and the idea that young people are indifferent to the spontaneous social movements. It is symptomatic, further, that the struggle for freedom and justice now take as a civilization model (the Muslim) that the most powerful of the earth considered as "anachronistic."
What happened to the youth of Tunisia and Egypt are now heading for progress riots? The root causes are poverty, social exclusion and lack of a democratic system. The old culture of the "suspicion" and "terrorism", a people on the streets and squares chanting slogans of his lungs for dictators (which previously had the blessing of U.S. and European Union) they leave a good time. Another reason is that 30% of the population of all Muslim countries traversed by the wave of protests has an age less than 30 years.
is that 30% of the population that has been used, as before, did the revolutionaries with the pamphlets, leaflets and underground newspapers, social networks as a source of agitation and protest coordination. The process in less than a month has caused the downfall of Ben Ali and the time you read this article probably that of Hosni Mubarak is due in part to anger channeled through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and blogs. Governments are aware of this power and now speak of "controlling" cyberspace. Wikileaks is another example we want to justify their attitude. Wawel
Ghonim, the head of Google's marketing and digital hero thanks to his initiative pilloried by the Mubarak government, should be, by the logic of "success" that governs us, a technocrat, a remnant of ' X 'and' Y 'to which only you should be concerned about your company's profits and return on personal savings. However, opted for the opposite way and turned against the dictatorship. "Freedom is a blessing why is worth fighting, "he wrote in his account Ghonin Twiter-a social network where communication and democracy come together happily, the day he was released by police.
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