Fake Questions for Real People No. 2

Question: would you give your life to save the planet? Could you accept being among those that are not going to make it? We need a lot of them, see. Submissions at the front desk. Have you got the nerve?

Lots of people are going to die soon. The situation is getting bad in Africa and South-America and if it gets bad there it’ll get worse. We’re not talking covid here, it’s all wrecked economies and food shortages, thanks to pressure to close up shop like the West had done, one wonders whose pressure and why. Very few people have been detected to have died from covid in these countries, so why a lockdown? Everybody knows their economies are too weak to handle a complete standstill. It’s insane. It’s criminal. So, who’s asking?

Up here we keep making people sick with counterintuitive regulations, which we then follow in confusion and to our detriment. We’ll probably get a last summer for free after which the plot will thicken. Did I here September vaccine mentioned? If that’s a bit too soon, growing poverty and the return of the cold will prove tough on a weakened population. See what they come up with next.

The world is now undergoing the campfire routine. When flames lick around the blackening wood, many great stories are being told with the energy of the fire's heat and lots of images are seen by those who feel inclined. When the flames wain, those stories end up clinging to the myths they once were until they implode, sometimes creating a new story in the process, which is nice. The same inevitability is reigning over the world. We may not be talking about it, but many people start getting unpleasant gut feelings, sensing something is going to go seriously wrong soon. And we know it is. This crazy system we have been clinging to for the last few crises is suddenly allowed to disappear while nothing is permitted to take its place. Should we all beg for communism at this point?

The longer they keep this going, the weaker their argument. People stop believing, simply because they are fed up. So there must be fits of unrest flashing over old Europe in months to come. I can’t see all of Germany and Netherland wanting to get vaccinated, for example. Not without having their say after a lengthy debate in which they learn to love the shot, that is. It’s the check society which has been on the rise. If your procedure is okay, we won’t question your morals. And if we don’t like your face, we condemn your motives. Still, it will not make a difference. This has been decided, quite some time ago. Sentiments are not going to save us, the individual yes, but not the flock. So the question remains, would you be willing to give up your earthling existence for the benefit of those you leave behind? Would that be a campaignable option for you?