This week it has been made public that the Ministry of Youth and Childhood is preparing a law that will include the expansion of the right to vote at 16. The information has generated a good amount of debate about it.
In parallel to this debate a viral phenomenon developed that has unleashed some panic in the US. We can call it the “Chicken Jockey Panic Trend” (I just invented it). It happens during the viewing of the movie Minecraftso a little context is necessary.
Minecraft It is the adaptation of the video game of the same name, one of those “intellectual properties” of enormous success that studies try to turn into similar success films. For not extending much, we can imagine the game as an infinite digital Lego with an 8 -bit aesthetic but in three dimensions. Light entertainment that includes the possibility of being attacked in your construction camp for different creatures that can kill you. That’s where the Chickn Jockey. According to cultural journalist Noel Ceballos in an article for the magazine GQ: “There is only 5% likely that a zombified character – as, for example, a baby or a villager – self -generating on the stage just above a chicken, thus creating the optical illusion that said NPC is mounted on the bird as if a jockey It was. “
At one point in the movie, the actor Jack Blackone of its protagonists, shouts “Chickn Jockey” and the creature in question appears for the rejection of adolescents in the room. These adolescents have become custom (which is infected by recording the moment on the moment) start screaming, running and throwing the popcorn that they have left in their containers celebrating the moment. The thing has gone so much of the hands that theaters in the US have included warning posters explaining that such a thing cannot be done; The film itself has distributed copies with a poster at the beginning saying that such a thing cannot be done. Some cinemas have called the police to indicate that such a thing cannot be done and the good Jack Black has gone to a movie pass to inform at the beginning of it that, friends, such a thing cannot be done.
The image of Jack Black, the actor/comic paradigm/character, the teacher of Rock schoolthe absolute masterpiece (stop reading this article and go to see it right now) Richard Linklatertelling a group of kids “please, behave well” is a good short circuit.
A few months ago, the complaint of spectators who got angry was also viral because the girls who were going to see WICKED The cinema began to sing their favorite songs.
In case you ask me, I don’t think it’s fine to sleep hundreds of popcorn and run like crazy people in the middle of a movie. Surely my teenage self would have been like those other young boys who are seen in the videos sitting with the face of “God, this is too much”: fascinated and paralyzed.
But.
It is quite joyful to see thousands of young people have a good time breaking certain corsets of what is allowed. Be to scream and run, be to sing your favorite songs. It is quite curious to see how time passes and every year a new type of panic against young people just because we do not understand or worry about understanding their codes. Has anyone ever worried about what happens in a rock concert when thousands of human beings are already jumping beer to heaven? Never. The reason is that they make it adults and it is supposed to be fine.
It turns out that cinema mainstream youth and especially the one who tries to attract young people who play video games He has sacrificed the narrative based on stories, the construction of characters and, in short, everything that makes cinema an interesting thing, to try to “simulate being a video game.” A dynamic as uninteresting as those video games that try to legitimize because “they look like films.”
That simulating a video game has ended up being a referential game that consists of launching recognizable images or mights of winking, precisely, a Viral effect. What happens to the kids when they see the chicken jockey is … exactly what the studies dreamed what would happen. An incredible degree of excitation, a viral attraction, a roller coaster. What happens is that when that desire has become a material, a huge panic has entered them, because it turns out that the kids express it in their codes and those codes are not sitting quietly. They are something else.
Well, that’s all the debate about vote at 16 yearsof the absolute terror that the codes that we do not understand or know and where we cannot enter adults are part of sovereignty and decision making.
Those same kids and kids with concerns and imaginary that may not be those who guide politics as we know it today will suffer the consequences of the political decisions that adults are making that will not suffer such consequences, for example in climate matters. In fact, the “fossil reaction” of Trump It is basically the cultural translation of thousands of adults unable to assume that the world that produced them is exhausted.
To those same kids and kids we allow them to work – that is, to be exploited – but not be part of the decisions chain on, for example, how time and work are organized.
We produce movies that pretend to be thugs to consume them patiently, but we do not allow them to do exactly what the movies propose them to do.
Therefore, voting at 16 is a way, above all, to include a fundamental part of the population in structures that are undoubtedly going to creak and bend with their presence. That is why they are afraid and that is why we should allow, without hesitation, to pass.
