Indignados

Today people calling theirselves the indignant ones, marching their way from Spain, arrived in Brussels. It struck me how they didn’t have a speaker and were unable to produce a clear point of view. Each interviewee projected personal experiences on the flag and allowed the television reporter to join these in an image of his choice (a cheerful gang of confused and utopian youth was what redaction made out of it).
One of them recalled: 'suddenly tens of thousands of us were together in a square and things to do were clear'. But then day after day living outdoors in foreign countries, the group got smaller and diminished to fifty by the time they reached Brussels. 
This gives a good impression of a medieval war (call the indignado's experimental archaeologists): based largely on good moral and food catering (no wages, training or specialised equipment).

In broad society the clear insight now exists that everything functions based ónly on money. And it does, because nature works on hierarchy. It’s tight hierarchy that makes some groups more successful than others and brings advantages to both its leaders and its followers. 
Those who don’t like this perfect functioning based only on money can’t do anything about it except maybe survive. And sure they should protest, but not too seriously. However large the protest will always be downsized by the media (properly paid and stressed people) to a cheerful prank.


For a while, my favorite news channel kept covering people checking out the market place. With bodyparts and painted signs ancient protestors animated the newer arrived who lended ears and disposed smiles to improvised speeches under a stretched flag. (If you visit Europe, watch out for any 'parties', events were people gather out of a related feeling of feastlessness!) 
Times were hard and evening television programmed with dilluted, uninspiring stuff, so people stayed on the street, waiting for the camera to turn, through which to offer theirselves to a visionary, Martin Luther King-like leader who persisted in overwhelming absence.

People craved for good speakers, even regardless of good governance. A pantheon of lousy ideas that were sold with eloquent speech testified to that, from conquering Europe to buying mystical business with other people's money. But let's not overstretch this conversation, humble and beloved readers and writers, but sleep on it and get together for more and better ideas.

Antwerp, 7 november 2011