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Column by Sibylle Berg: You notice, I'm really angry

2020-09-12T14:31:54.371Z


A life in the loop of fear: the unemployed are robbed of their human rights, even so-called containers are prohibited. Shut up, keep working, the system roars.


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Thrown food: The fact that it is forbidden to take it out of the trash fits into the scenario of the greatest possible intimidation

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What an extremely weak, fragile, corrupt and inhuman system capitalism is is shown in crises.

In Italy people kill themselves out of fear, the markets have failed to deal with disasters, the big capitalists have remained silent and waited for the state to intervene.

Rescue, regulate, before they enrich themselves again with the community's money, fight against the state, undermine and swarm their self-satisfied lies about the jobs they have received.

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Joseph Shrub

Sibylle Berg is a writer and playwright.

In 2019 her bestselling novel "GRM. Brainfuck" was published, and in 2020 the discussion volume "Nerds save the world".

Berg has received numerous awards for her literary work, most recently the "Bertolt Brecht Prize" and the "Swiss Grand Prix for Literature".

Together with Matze Hielscher she can be heard every 14 days in the podcast "Wesensfremd".

The claim that people need work is the best known and most effective means of spreading fear in order to unquestionably continue to accept the mystery of capitalism and free markets.

Now most people need to be used and to be creative.

Certainly nobody needs an exploitative relationship.

In which you sell your lifetime, have to ask for recovery time and find yourself in a loop of fear for the rest of your life.

Lose your job, lose your rented apartment, lose your honor - in order to lend this exclusion from the happy national body enough sharpness, the life of the unemployed is made as difficult as possible.

Actually, they are being deprived of their human rights, they have to introduce themselves in offices, live on money that saves them from starvation and are locked away outside from all the content of life that people have been taught.

Consuming.

The fact that the removal of food from the garbage, the so-called containers, is a criminal offense in Germany fits into the scenario of the greatest possible threatening gesture of intimidation.

Shut up, keep working, the system roars, which is now calling for the grand finale.

Resistance is futile.

With the help of well-manipulated threat units, called right-wing radicals for short, the powerless resistance to humanity is being eliminated with the support of almost all current governments in western countries.

"Stones against an inhuman system, how touching"

Critics are threatened and discredited by various media.

And right now, right-wing networks in the army and police as well as the marches of the friendly fascists from next door in front of German government buildings, a campaign is running again against the terrible violence from the left, which consists of the helplessly angry throwing of stones.

Stones against an inhuman system, how touching.

A system that pays nursing staff miserably in spite of great hymns of praise, that forgets single mothers in pandemic times, that drives the destruction of the planet rapidly and energetically, that presents the owners of means of production, that has given away the opportunity for the EU, that lobbying allows all sorts of cynically misanthropic industries .

You see, I'm really mad.

As one of the millions of petty bourgeois women of that time, dependent on decisions that are so nonsensical that even I notice.

Indeed, the argument of the employers' negotiator in the public sector bargaining was that if public sector employees were paid better, the money would come from the community, practically from the employees themselves.

Hit, sunk.

The argument of the auto industry (the decision will probably be postponed) that the citizens should subsidize gasoline cars after all, the half-life of which has clearly expired, was ... - I forgot.

Some nonsense with restructuring and time.

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What CEOs say, what they have learned in the elite universities, where the same white, male descendants of wealthy families are always preparing to continue running companies for the good of less, to sink them, to carry on elsewhere.

But the jobs.

All right.

The markets are coming back, says another idiot, and you can't blame him.

He probably actually believes that everyone is responsible for their own happiness, as long as they were born in the right place, without physical impairment, with the right skin color and into the right - that is, wealthy - family.

Here in Switzerland we are currently democratically deciding whether male employees can stay at home two weeks after the birth of their child.

Paternity leave, two weeks, that's crazy.

If the bill were passed, we should all be full of gratitude, be calm, be peaceful.

Thanks to the employer, because people need work.

Unless they're very, very rich.

Then they don't need any work, but have to take a long vacation to recover from being rich.

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