I decided to avoid domestic political news. A friend said: nice and easy now that the fair is with recess, but I had dropped out earlier. To be precise when national media dived on Yesilgöz-Douwe Bob with a dedication on which no other subject can count. Thanks in part to this unbridled service in strengthening social media of populists, half of the Netherlands believes that asylum migration is the largest national problem. The only major problem with asylum migration is that populists abuse her to seize power. In the meantime, our cabinets can do nothing but fall, we have so much PFAS in our body that the sunburn does not withdraw and the travel advice to Southern Europe is: Be prepared for forest fires.
If there was ‘asylum’, ‘Wilders’ or ‘Yesilgöz’ in a header, I skipped that article anyway. As a reader I was able to control editors from below. No longer click on the bait. I exchanged radio for podcasts. That is working harder for the media consumer, because you have to find out for yourself what the listening is worth, but who is looking for, for example, find philosopher and self -appointed ‘Degrowth Communist’ Kohei Saito. At the podcast Collection of beans Discussed capitalism as a system that is always out of more growth and therefore not sustainable on a planet with limited sources. Western countries calculate that their emissions are going down, but now have their over -consumption produced in China, which increases emissions there. Production in a capitalist system is increasing, but salaries remain low: the extra money goes to shareholders. In terms of animal products, the Netherlands is therefore small China, I understood. Companies export themselves drowsy, shareholders happy, salaries low and the emissions are for the country.
After Collection of beans the podcast supplier suggested The left -wing revolt. Yesilgöz came by when it was discussed that the VVD is always talking about the hard -working Dutchman, but this exit cabinet actually increases the burden for workers and reduces it for power. Maybe that’s why she likes to talk about clickbait -language topics such as asylum migration or hatred of Jews. The podcast participants stated that social parties in the middle are nowadays set as the extreme left and right -wing liberals proclaim themselves to quietly. Quite reassurance, because I was already afraid that I had moved.
At word level, the problem with liberalism that sounds sympathetic is: to freedom, even to realism when you hussle three letters. Socialism, on the other hand, sounds like social services, to community service, to Corvee. In the meantime, liberalism comes down to the right of strongest and socialism, perhaps even protecting defenseless. Nobody clicks on such a head. Then rather fuss.
A few podcasts later had economist Kate Raworth It suddenly about Freud’s cousin. Status and something belong to his motives for humans, Freud discovered. If you got that linked to products, you could sell as a silly, his cousin thought. That’s how it came to publicity. Now we are with people who belong to the sake of status and to the group from the things they buy. I do not claim that we have ended up in the climate abbreviation by the cousin of Freud, but by the capitalism that drives us to consume more, produce more and not to give a ball to destroy what we destroy. After a week of news things, I don’t want to buy anything new anymore and I have to restrain myself not to sing the international from the balcony. It is high time to click on what Yesilgöz, Wilders- or asylum bait.
Carolina Trujillo Is a writer.