Manifesto

Bearing the burden of the excesses of human hubris, the young watch the ravages of a deleterious anthropocentrism, exacerbated by an unbridled capitalism. As global existential threats worsen — climate disruption, nuclear proliferation, inexhaustible wills to war — humanity as a whole seems to be conspiring in its own undoing, caught in what Günther Anders called the Promethean discrepancy. Our capacity to produce catastrophes has long since outstripped our capacity to represent their consequences to ourselves, and therefore to act accordingly.

Defeatism would have us think of man's life as consubstantial with his own destruction. That idea turns a fact — what man has done until now — into a destiny, what he would be forced to do again. Nothing compels him to repetition. Man lives by his thought; he builds by his actions. But however good the action, is it still capable of turning back the hands of the Doomsday Clock? If there is still time and we do not act, we lose that possibility by the mere fact of having remained silent. If it is already too late and we act anyway, we will, at the very least, have lessened what could have been worse. If it is already too late and we do not act, we then suffer the worst scenario, without even having tried to diminish it. Pascal's reasoning thus shows that in none of these four cases does inaction prevail over action.

Through its dreaming, questioning, sometimes accusing eyes, youth has always been the instigator of change. Not because it would be braver than its elders, but because it arrives in the world without the compromises that encyst. It has not yet learned to make do. And it is precisely that freedom — the freedom to refuse the order of things — that makes it the driving force of every pivotal age. Ours is no exception. It demands it.

By allowing young talents from all over the world to connect, to exchange, and to collaborate on projects that carry an impact, Forgr intends to become the place where this scattered youth ceases to be scattered: the hub of its collective action. It at last gives their isolated ideas the space they lacked, so they no longer go out alone, in the silence of a room, of a screen, of one more night.