Shared, Outraged, Forgotten: The Year of Digital Conscience

Another year is over.
A lot has happened again.
But most have been forgotten.
Without taking responsibility in real life,
by sharing and liking on social media
we cleared our conscience.
The screens were bright.
The words were crowded.
Conscience was often digital.
A lot happened in 2025.
So many things shook us.
Then another agenda came.
Then we forgot.
There was a disaster.
Shared.
Response.
After a while it was moved down.
We are outraged.
We wrote.
We are relieved.
And we moved on.
This is how the digital conscience worked.
But the streets were quiet most of the time.
Women were killed.
Newborn babies were killed.
Children could not be protected.
Nature has been massacred.
Animals were wasted.
Sometimes inside the system,
sometimes in neglect,
sometimes blatantly.
No one was called to the streets.
Nobody said “now is the time”.
Those deaths went unclaimed.
He was orphaned.
Conscience remained on the screen.
When did the street fill up?
When a politician's space shrinks.
When a balance of power is upset.
When a comfort zone is threatened.
Not for man.
For power.
For the position.
We were called “the people” again.
But most of the time it's just
our anger is wanted.
Our loyalty.
Our side.
It was easy to take sides.
One sentence was enough.
A title.
A fear.
“We stood next to ”whoever we looked like".
We did not listen to the other.
We even separated the pain.
We felt sorry for whichever side he was on.
That's how a person is erased.
They were replaced by ID cards.
Tags.
Pure.
There was stiffness in front of the curtain.
Compromise behind the scenes.
Fighting on screen.
A closed-door deal.
They called it secret diplomacy.
Spoken on our behalf,
but we were never asked.
The economic crisis deepened.
Young people have become unhappy.
The future is no longer a promise.
But those responsible were nowhere to be found.
It was always someone else's fault.
Always other reasons.
Always “now is not the time.”
This year's word was perhaps “conscience”.
Much has been said.
It was shared a lot.
It was consumed a lot.
But conscience,
is not just feeling.
It is not just writing.
Someone else's pain
is to be able to defend it without asking your side.
The New Year is therefore not just a calendar change,
a matter of wishes.
My wish is this:
That we don't leave our anger on the screen,
that we don't just fill the streets for the powerful,
women, children, orphans
a year in which no one is left unattended.
As the calendar changes,
not content with a digital conscience.
remembering the true conscience,
that we can manage to stay human
let it be a year.