"Just like we may never forget that the government isn’t our friend; we shouldn’t forget either that most people, most of our fellow citizens aren’t our friends either. These past two years we’ve seen how most people blindly follow what the government asks of them - not limited by any moral compass. In Holland for example, more than 90% of the population got vaccinated and a majority of them thought it was absolutely justified that the unvaccinated were stripped of their most fundamental human rights.
At best, the unvaccinated were told that we were ‘being difficult’ and that we should just ‘bear the consequences of our own choice to not be vaccinated’. But more often, we were told that we were irresponsible, non-citizens who ‘weren’t part of society anymore’ and shouldn’t be able to receive healthcare. Indeed, we were basically murderers who deserved to be punished.
That’s what we were told by our leaders, that’s what we were told by the media and that’s what many of us were even told by our own friends and family.
We shouldn’t forget that. We shouldn’t forget what they did to us. Because the truth is: the world is a dangerous place filled with people who do evil things and/or don’t do anything to stop it. There is no such thing as a Fukuyamaian ‘end of history’ and civilization and liberal democracy are nothing but a thin veneer. And as long as we continue to have the memory span of a goldfish, we’ll be treated like one: aimlessly swimming around in a tiny bowl, merely existing and consuming, completely dependent on the big hand that feeds us.
And at risk of sounding cynical: with inflation rising to 12%
and the prices of bread and meat going up by 30%, I wouldn’t be so sure
of that hand coming to feed you either."
Eva Vlaardingerbroek . Don't forget what they did to you because they'll do it again
