“We have a folkloric idea of power,” said Lodewijk van Oord in the program VPRO Books. He was a guest in connection with his essay Protesting for beginners. Rulers start ignoring a demonstration for as long as possible. If that is not possible, they will rid the protesters, then they fight it from the argument that the protesters are criminals. If all of that does not help, they switch to violence, after which the next phase is the victory of the demonstrators, according to Van Oord who followed Gandhi’s lessons. He had, not completely surprising, discovered that Extinction Rebellion was closer to the ideas of Gandhi than Farmers Defense Force. It was also an interesting argument in which Van Oord optimistically believes that the power lies with the masses and never with the rulers with capital. “Violence is an epidemic,” he said, and you could only break that with nonviolence. He saw the first proof for that in the play Lysistate That Aristophanes in 411 BC. had written. Women, who had had enough that the Spartans and the Athenians have already headed for each other for about twenty, withdrew to the Acropolis, and abandoned their men for as long as they would make peace. In this way you force Vrede with non -violent resistance, Van Oord argued.
Nice idea, but unfortunately. That man is a power of power at all levels could be seen in a new stage of The Summit On RTL 4. All sporty people went to climb a mountain and in the meantime they looked at who they could bully away. Beau van Erven Dorens looked like a true from another mountain Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer – that famous painting by Caspar David Friedrich where the lonely man is on the top symbol for grandeur of the single individual – down on that group of whom one had bumped her toe, had another pain in her knee and a third had a beard. Beau came down and said strictly: “Waiting makes no sense.” With his finger he pointed to yellow canoes they had to lift. No one protested, they only secretly watched who could be dumped. To show how powerbells and bad people are by nature, you really only need a Beau van Erven Dorens to show the way. The betrayal is an epidemic.
High Tea
Those who want to radiate power should not laugh much, a new episode of Farmer is looking for Woman. Like an alpha man on a monkey rock, farmer John five women treated a high tea and then let them do his car with a spray can. They all dong for his attention, hardly less subtle than in The Summit They worked forward to eliminate the other person. One of them painted a heart on the car.
With the other farmers, the battle was no less. Farmer Martijn had cut out hearts of cardboard, made a game look each other in the eyes and wanted the women to hang on jeans to see how long they could keep up. He laughed often and nervous, and then send an astonished yoga teacher away. Farmer Julius, on the other hand, didn’t laugh once, and was annoyed by women who did. After a jar of curling in the cowshed, he sent the woman who had come from Norway especially for him that morning. John was even inexorable if possible. He not only sent two women away, but also explained to one of those rejected women that he could not have laughed at her that day. There you are: being sent away from a group by farmer John who gives you a kick by saying that you have no humor. Farmer is looking for Woman: How folklore and power work, you don’t get to see anywhere better.