US Elections, Soccer Riots and COVID-19: What do they have in common?
And what might the honeybees teach us about democracy?
Who’s team are you on? Red or blue? Orange or white/blue? Green, black, white and red or…greeeeen? Are you chipped or not? Who owns your genetic makeup? Did you just sneeze? Are you with us or against us? How far apart can we be polarized?
Demonization has been perfected to the point where the "other" is no longer seen as human. They threaten everything we stand for… their existence negates our own. It’s either you or me. And to cement it further, let’s throw religion into the mix:
Welcome severed-god!
Collective Hysteria
Without getting into the he said-she said, they started it-no they started it, the earth is flat - no round… without debating right and wrong… we don’t have to look too closely to see that everything the media feeds us is engineered to divide, disorient, manipulate, and control … make us buy stuff we don’t need, build walls, put up surveillance cameras, ‘deport them immigrants’1, buy guns and yes please, track my calls.
Operation fear
It’s not about political ideologies, sportsmanship or health. It’s about entrenching us with so much fear that we are willing to hand over our freedoms, pay to be locked up, mistrust everyone around us and snitch on those who do not comply. Working to pay taxes not for education but the war industry. Our safety is on the line. Call it conspiracy theory if you insist on wearing the blindfold. We only need to look at the result of these -and other- major events and ask ourselves: who is benefitting?
A global choreography of dissonance
Lights. Action. Chaos. It’s all staged. The elections were staged, the riots were staged, the pandemic was staged and injected. (I could add October 7th and 9/11 to the mix – but I’m trying to keep this short and delay being lynched.)
Manufacturing otherness
He and she are two faces of the same coin (Dems, read the disclaimer.)2
Mourn not. Look back upon history and you will see that this or that has brought nothing but misery and suffering. One side might appear closer to us, it looks more like us and resonates more with our beliefs. But essentially, they are both a product and we’re buying into it. And they call it a democracy: the choice between one of the two, while the rest are silenced. It is the illusion of democracy, fair competition and freedom of choice when there is none.
Regardless of the candidates’ moral stance, they are owned by the machine and trapped in the system of white masculine supremacy… misguided, brainwashed, used, pawned, or in their complete sanity with an insatiable hunger for power and a macabre agenda we’d rather not see. The outcome is one and the same.
Who is the winner? Neither you nor I.
The crowds cheer
In the holy land, the systematic ‘othering’ goes back centuries. It is not inherent, but imported. Thank you Great Britain. Today, neither the Palestinians nor the Israelis are benefitting – I’ve talked about this before, so will not repeat myself here. Fast forward to Amsterdam, where a soccer match provides an opportunity.
A few rotten apples are enough to render a whole population ‘violent.’ A single incident is reframed as a grand act of anti-Semitism. Let’s call it what it is: an orchestrated act of violence. A misinformation campaign that turned the headlines from Gaza and Beirut to Amsterdam… a nice little diversion. Images of dead children were starting to get old anyway. Thanks for the respite.
The apple of discord caused the Trojan war. Take a bite snow white. Sleeeeep.
Polarisation
As a result of the latest spectacle, the Dutch Prime Minister is trying to expand the law that allows the withdrawal of Dutch citizens from Jihadist to include the ‘Arab and Muslim gangs’ who allegedly attacked Maccabi supporters. I’m not pro-violence and I’m not against punishment; however, such laws just bring us one step closer to revoking the citizenship of anyone who is deemed a threat to the system, which is quite handy for authoritarian regimes.
Mind you, it was no different during Covid. How many countries made the jab compulsory to keep a job, enter a bank, maintain or acquire citizenship? With time, compulsory procedures will be normalized. With time, any and all activists, independent journalists and free thinkers will be at risk of having their citizenship and rights revoked. It’s been happening in the so-called third world and the great enemies of the West like Iran and Russia. Beware of the bogeyman. But we don’t have to look far. England again takes the lead, arresting journalists to weed out terrorism and save us from free speech.
Who Benefits?
Small businesses have collapsed or lining up to fall, ordinary people are struggling, families are split apart, depression is the true pandemic of our time… surveillance technology and facial recognition evolved. Everything is digitized, erased with one click if need be. AI robots can now do the killing. No blood on these hands. It’s all televised, and we are glued to the screens, watching the polls, the maps, the scores. Feeling impotent. Pour me another drink. Meanwhile, corrupt governments, tech companies, Pharma, and security industries are thriving. And let’s not get into the discussion of so-called green energy…
It’s not all gloom and doom
Or at least, some of us keep telling that to ourselves- the hopeless optimists amongst us that crave a new world. The awakening is happening, it’s just not televised. It starts with you and me.
Refuse to be polarised.
The old paradigm is on its way out, and it’s natural that it will show all its teeth in a final attempt to maintain the status quo. Meanwhile, nature continues to demonstrate how balance can be achieved. Is anyone watching?
Bee Democracy3
When bees swarm, they send out scouts to search for a new home. Each scout bee returns to the hive to tell of what she has found, communicating to the others by performing a wiggle dance. If a dance is convincing through its intensity, the other scouts fly over to check it out. If they agree it’s the best option, they come back and perform that same dance. At the beginning, each scout bee is doing a different dance. Eventually, all the scouts are doing the same dance, pointing to the same place.
Please note, that the bees would never point to a home that is already inhabited. Only an empty abode is considered for establishing the new colony.
There is no ego involved, ‘my choice vs yours’ but the question of ‘what’s best for the whole.’ This is not decided by one leader, and definitely not the queen (who in fact has no say in decision making at all.) It is the worker bees that decide. Consensus.
This is what a ‘global awareness’ might look like – not serving only a few, but everyone. Yes, it is possible. We have never achieved this state as human beings, but if we believe in the evolution of consciousness, then it’s what we are heading towards - eventually. So at least, we can strive for it… one dance at a time.
Quoting a US policeman at ground zero, a couple of days after 9/11, responding to his own question of ‘how do we combat terrorism’ addressed to an Israeli and a Palestinian who claimed they came from ‘uptown’ and were on their way to a Chinese restaurant, but were betrayed by the Alladin nose their faces displayed and a common accent that cannot be denied.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d rather see the tail of Harris than the head of Trump, but if the system of oppression has to inflate fully before it deflates - then Mr T. is the man to hasten the blow up.
Read: Honeybee Democracy by Dr. Thomas D. Seeley.