Social Justice was a common subject to come up in NYU Residential Education. I always complained that it was a very ambiguous phrase and creating a catch-all term for it undermined the goals and strategy of each individual -ism beneath it. (I’m assuming that social justice is solely dealing with ism’s here, I don’t even know if ism’s is a real thing, but the pseudo-word was definitely used at NYU in this way.) Anyway, I don’t really want to talk about social justice, because I still have my doubts, but I always conceded that my pessimism about social justice was probably because I had no passion myself. I had no cause, no reason to raise my voice in protest and no wick to light me flaming for the fight. Somehow I have changed.

I don’t know exactly how to define what I want. I don’t think that it is educational equality and I don’t think that it’s an increase in the capital S Scholarship. I don’t think that it’s a boost in test scores and I don’t think that it’s a rise in higher education enrollment. I might be discarding these options because I don’t really meet most of these qualifications myself. I think that what I’m looking for is simply defined in curiosity. Using KISS, this must be my final answer. What happens to childlike zeal for the unknown? I will hopefully get back to you on that.

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