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No flowers

by Jaap den Haan Tuesday, Apr. 17, 2007 at 9:19 AM

The real scandal

Sometimes it is counterproductive to critisise people for their money. It safeguards them against constant control and intrusion and gives useful people the opportunity and privacy to do anything

at all.

An environmentalist is checked for his electricity bill, and we see a type of control occurring by for instance housing corporations who are the first to take advantage of his ideas, leaving or putting paying occupants merely in the cold to save energy and money in particular.

This phenomenon we see for instance take place in the Netherlands, symbolically.

Also, insurance companies are quick to acknowledge the danger of global warming and assess the risk of floods, as is now happening in London.

As long as anything can be measured in terms of money, it is real to the public who are the first victim of its assessment, trapped.

A lover of nature who buys vegetables in the shop is checked if he doesn't have too many flowers in his garden where he could grow vegetables instead, a surgeon if instead of the delicate and expensive knives he uses for surgery has no ordinary kitchen knives at home, and a media reporter if he has no pigeons to bring the news.

An illegal, good-looking, female somewhere is also always a great joy to the envious public, if it will provoke a sense of guilt or a shame they don't have themselves.

Politicians are expected to be the religious leaders that are missing and obviously missed in real. And so, politics seems to revolve around the possibility of a scandal, more and more. As a reaction it constantly seeks to represent and appeal to controversial elements in society. And the real scandal left are we to ourselves. We are supposed to grow very polite from type of concern, and more subervient even than we were.

Revolutions often became colourless, regressive and even repressive by this type of reasoning: no flowers.

That people with some quality are constantly checked in this way may exactly be one of the reasons why they go into retreat and why there are so few politicians left with some integrity, and the ones left are reactionary. Nobody else wants to take any responsibilty.

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