Donald Sutherland: 'I want Hunger Games to stir up a revolution'

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71. Youth has always been the catalyst for change

That's where the energy is, it's been that way forever. Sutherland is correct that consumer electronics (games, social media) have played a role in keeping youth happy enough and distracted enough to keep them out of the streets.

No need for any generational arguments about this, and I didn't get that from Sutherland's statements. He knows where the energy and fire is, it's in the young people. Those of us who have been around longer and have lived more of the history of this country will stand with them. If we were old and comfortable that might not be the case but we're old and hurting. Let's do this together, nonviolently, resolutely.

It will be incredibly difficult so we'll need every segment of society as much as possible, we'll have to be very wary of divide and conquer strategies such as generational finger-pointing.

And the social media that serves as a distraction can also serve as an organizing tool. Though of course such things are closely monitored.