Friday for Future becomes THE brand alongside Nestlé and Volkswagen AG
Some are on everyone's lips because no one can drink water any more without holding a bottle of the delicious privatised water in their hands; others because the sparkling clean diesel vehicles might not get a green sticker after all. 'Oh, what a shame' you will think, there must be a really, really green badge.
Emerald green would be a great colour, or moss green. When I think of moss green, I think of money, because as the saying goes, "no moss, no go!". Wouldn't it be a shame if the most important thing that moves young people at the moment just fizzled out like that? What Nestlé and Volkswagen can do should be no problem for Greta Thunberg's community.
Privatise and capitalise
It doesn't matter whether it's about basic rights, basic needs or basic existential struggles. Everyone should be able to have a piece of the pie, and if young people want to fight for their future, they have to have the wherewithal to organise their demonstrations. Just fill out a few applications and pay fees to the German Patent and Trademark Office and off they go with the fight for climate protection in Germany.
In the past it was easier, there were enough trees from which cardboard could be made to make large posters. You simply didn't go to school or university and no one wanted to issue suspensions because of that. And if they did? More posters, more uproar and an even bigger scandal.
Was everything better in the past? The answer is simple - yes.
Climate change was not yet standing at people's necks with his scythe, he was just an evil man with a scythe coming ever closer. As we all know, it's easy to banish our friend Hein from our lives as an anthropomorphic allegory - until the end. The new hipster brand 'Fridays for Fukunft' is definitely a step in the right direction, at least if you intend to prevent young people from demonstrating. So we can say again: back then we still went out on the streets to make our concerns loudly known. And for today's youth I have only one sentence to say: "I no longer have any hope for the future of our people if it should depend on the frivolous youth of today. For this youth is without doubt insufferable, reckless and precocious." No, that's right, that's not from me, but from Hesoid 640 B.C., or from a cuneiform text from Chaldea around 2000 B.C., or from Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch ... all those ancient Greeks and Romans did nothing all day but formulate aphorisms about the youth of today.
There just wasn't a quote to be found where someone takes out a knife and slaughters youthful ideals in their own ranks - metaphorically speaking. So if a young person moans at you again while you're paying with small change, just turn around and take him in your arms; I'm sure he needs it at that moment. And when the policemen in the new-fangled night blue ask you questions, think back to the old days and the olive-green shit-covered uniforms, because there was still cardboard without acarbon footprintand trees and water from non-privatised sources, no rating agencies and the most expensive brands in the world.