In the light of the upcoming Belgian elections: a little something about the context of ‘choice’ and how we are led to our decisions. We base our civilian and consumer choices on the array of information we can source. Without input, no sound choice can be made. The more varied the input, the better founded our choice. Most of us are not sociopathic or criminally insane, so we are generally making decisions that are in our best interest and the interest of your families, friends and peers.

But if we’re honest, most of us don’t have the time nor energy to be very inquisitive or investigative. We tend to believe what we read or hear or see in the news. Because we all have a lot of spinning plates. We rely on the media to tell us the full story.

Let’s be clear: everything (e-very-thing) is fully tainted and corrupted by the influence of economic interests. Including, and maybe even mainly, mass media. Information has become one of the main pressure points to get us to believe and think a certain way.

Remember when the media used to be the watchdog of the ruling powers. When investigative journalists were backed and encouraged by their editors to dig deep. And when they uncovered dirt, it would get published (at least sometimes). Those days are long gone. We are now dependent on alternative news sources, some of which are qualitative (going the extra mile to still dig deep and take risks, sometimes at the expense of liberty and life), but these are far outnumbered by the myriad micro-media outlets that spew unsubstantiated crap. Getting informed about ‘the true story’ is definitely a challenge.

Don’t let the democratic nature of the term ‘social media’ fool you either. There is no fair process in how information is distributed over the internet. Here too, unsavoury powers and biased censorships are at play. 

Today’s mainstream media still enjoy a status of quality that they haven’t earned in many decades. The mainstream news that you are being fed is a very poor surrogate for the full spectrum of information and sources you should be offered. This vanilla pulp should be labeled ‘fake news’ just as much as those cohorts of unsubstantiated idiots that sully the waters. 

Over the past 70 years, conglomerate power whores have shaped the legal and political system to serve and protect only their interests and the interests of the companies under their umbrellas. Their political puppets are stupidly (at best) playing the 4 or 6 year reelection game, protecting the status quo, for a fat fee; or they are downright highjacking governments in various guises of autocracy or dictatorship. And the mass media are completely effin’ useless under legal and economic pressures, as they too are owned by those very same power whores. 

Just so you know, that if you follow the money trail upwards, it’s all clearly connected: our consumer choices, our career choices, the aggressive, fascist and very stupid (a dangerous melange) police forces (protecting the capital and the extractors of it), the failing legal system (that only protects business interests and no longer cares about true justice), the failing mass media (that are fed by the hand they should be scrutinising), the glorification of the winner’s mindset (where human(e) values are the subject of ridicule and the act of ‘closing the deal’, at any cost, is lauded), the laughable and deeply corrupted political class that takes it deep up the rear in exchange for meagre ego reach-arounds, the big pseudo-philanthropical entrepreneurs (“Winners take all – The elite charade of changing the world” by A.G.), the polarisation into hate-groups (on whatever imaginary grounds: flags, borders, size, dialect, creed, colour, …) that successfully tear us apart and prevent us from uniting against the top of the pyramid, the deeply disgusting symposia hosted by the WEF (you will own nothing and be happy, while we laugh in your face and piss on your children’s graves), the big financial families that sourced their money by aggressively profiteering from the great wars and other turning points in history, the guilds and lodges and cliques, secret societies and religions that dabble in the occult and rub each others backs while funding child molestation islands, the patenting of nature (why is Bill Gates patenting grains and consolidating our food supplies? F&!k you, Bill), the confiscations of freedom by the WHO (we see your agenda), the conglomerate monopolies (pharma, petchem, arms, agro, tech, construction, … – e.g. Black Rock sells weapons to destroy nations AND scores the contracts for reconstruction), the gargantuan, overreaching, supranational interests of the power whores, … all – that – sh!!t. Whatever motivates and drives these monsters, the outcome paints a truly horrific picture and future. 

So go ahead and cast your vote, but just know that its practical meaning and scope has been rendered completely pointless by the commercial strangleholds on everything. All these different political colours are serving the same masters. Without exception. Offering the illusion of choice and democracy. The freedoms you (may) still enjoy today will get eroded and taken away. If you ask us, we will always say to vote far left. Not for any effective value of these parties or their figureheads, but for the ideologies they should represent: creating a society that puts community and natural living first; while acknowledging that the economy is an operational tool, not a dictating master. 

If we want change, it will demand adjustments and even sacrifice from our end, because we are fiercely entangled in this web. But we shouldn’t move without seeking profound retribution from what all these different shades of leaders have done to us since time eternal. They have to pay the piper. In spades. Retrieve the money from where it has been stashed and take that power back. Organise and unionise to disperse responsibilities so no individuals get beaten into examples for the rest of us to fear rebellion. Because rebel we must. 

Or just keep doing what you do, if you are too exhausted to shift. We get it. It is all deeply disheartening. It’s too much. The wall seems too high. Just be nice to and take care of each other, then. We are all the same. We all belong. 

Kudos if you’ve read this through. There won’t be many of you. Drop us a line if you have. Much appreciated.