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Can We Discuss the Substance?

Posted on September 7, 2024 by admin

This article is based on this dutch article of Martijn Benders

### Can We Talk About the Content?

Sometimes I let typos remain in my poems. It’s not out of mischief, but because I believe that a typo can sometimes hold meaning. In this case, for example, I accidentally wrote ‘Left Lastert’ instead of Left Laser:

A poem about the psychotic silence that identifies the Dutch writer.

He wrote nothing about 9/11.
He wrote nothing about MH17.
He wrote nothing about Snowden.
He wrote nothing about COVID-19.
He wrote nothing about Nordstream.
He wrote nothing about Gaza.

But when they wanted to ban the Martijn Foundation, suddenly “Dutch writers” were in an uproar. Freedom was in danger! Full-page newspaper ads. A few years later, the board members were arrested in Uruguay; they drugged and raped the local children. Thanks in part to that idealistic impulse of the “Dutch writer.”

Let’s quickly switch to another topic. Do you remember our women who don’t give birth enough to stem the tide of African migrants?

Omtzigt seems to use the whole construction as a variant of Rutte’s hollow phrase, claiming constantly that we’re afraid to talk about it, and when you do talk about it, he claims he didn’t mean that. Of course, Mr. Omtzigt.

I’m not afraid to talk about infertility and have been discussing it for several years now.

What strikes me is that both Omtzigt and his moderately left-wing opponent, Leo Lucassen, avoid the topic of vaccinations and only act as if this “infertility” is due to women simply not wanting to anymore, as if it were a natural moral phenomenon.

Of course, it’s not necessarily true that all the studies on the negative impact of vaccinations on fertility will be the final word. The government has been doing its best for the past thirty years to overwhelm the population with toxins: PFTAS in our food, glyphosate in our food, microplastics in our brains. And if anyone can still think, there’s a sedative more addictive than heroin.

That enormous chemical cocktail, could it be? No, that’s unthinkable. But fertility in the USA dropped by 3% in one year between 2023 and 2024. That’s huge and can never be the result of moral choices. Women have an ingrained script. The number of women who resist that script could steadily increase, but not in this way.

One in two people already get cancer thanks to the Great Friends of Glyphosate and PFTAS and other large chemical production junk. That jab was just an addition—a “vaccine against a cold”—you’d need to lose thirty IQ points to believe that. And “turning your body into a factory for toxic foreign proteins” doesn’t sound like an idea from Tesla or Einstein to me either.

But we don’t hear Omtzigt about these issues, nor Leo Lucassen. Why not? That’s a good question. But when they hypocritically say in the media that we’re afraid to talk about the content, just like Rutte did, it makes my toes curl.

You are not talking about the content at all, Mr. Omtzigt. The content is the party that made it possible for insects to become extinct massively and thus, in the long run, humanity too. Because without pollination, nature collapses. First, biodiversity, then everything gets sick.

Can we talk about the content, Mr. Omtzigt, Mr. Lucassen? I never hear either of you about the mass murder in Gaza either. They seem like people whose mental needle got stuck in a single groove. On that White Woman, who hmm maybe needs to learn to give birth, well, I didn’t really say that. But what about demography? And Nigeria then?

Ad infinitum.

By the way, what a terrible picture with this article, something only the Dutch would come up with:

Martijn 07-09-2024

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Castles Get Kicked in the Bricks each Summer

Let’s face it: some backpacks just carry your stuff. This one tells your entire life philosophy in one ridiculous, multilingual joke. Imagine strolling into a museum, a bus stop, or your ex's new wedding—with a bag that declares, in ten languages, that castles are always the losers of summer.

Why? Because deep down, you know:

  • Tourists always win.
  • History has a sense of humor.
  • And you, my friend, are not carrying your lunch in just any nylon sack—you’re carrying it in a medieval meltdown on your shoulders.

This backpack says:

  • “I’ve been to four castles, hated three, and got kicked out of one for asking where the dragons were.”
  • “I appreciate heritage sites, but I also think they could use a bit more slapstick.”
  • “I’m cute, I’m moopish, and I will absolutely picnic on your parapet.”

It’s absurd.
It’s philosophical.
It holds snacks.

In short, it’s not just a backpack—it’s a mobile monument to glorious collapse.

And honestly? That’s what summer’s all about.

Philosophy thirts

Feeling surveilled? Alienated by modernity? Accidentally started explaining biopolitics at brunch again? Then it’s time to proudly declare your loyalties (and your exhaustion) with our iconic “I’m with Fuckold” shirt.

This tee is for those who’ve:

  • Said “power is everywhere” in a non-BDSM context.
  • Tried to explain Discipline and Punish to their cat.
  • Secretly suspect the panopticon is just their neighbour with binoculars.

Wearing this shirt is a cry of love, rebellion, and post-structural despair. It says:
“Yes, I’ve read Foucault. No, I will not be okay.”

Stay tuned for more philosophical shirts and backpacks, as we at Benders are working on an entire collection that will make even the ghost of Hegel raise an eyebrow.

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