I’m sure you all know the Simpsons quite well. There is a quote in Season 21st 10th episode “Once Upon A Time In Springfield” that always reminds me of the Austrian mentality.
Moe: Easy there, Habitrail.
Homer: They took away our doughnuts at work. All I've had are my meals.
Carl: And the worst thing is, there's nothing we can do about it.
Lenny: I think that's the best thing 'cause then you can say, "Well, there's nothing we can do about it."
When you think about it, that's exactly how Austrians think and act. Austrians like to complain a lot, but most of them never do anything about it. It’s so much easier to complain - I guess we Austrians grew up with it and came to like it.
We made a virtue out of something that would wear us down otherwise or would request a lot of effort to change. So instead of using our energy to fight what’s wrong we give in and lie to ourselves so that we can actually even feel better about us for doing nothing while living in conditions we would normally hate, wouldn’t we be able to turn shit into “gold”. But not everything that sparkles is really gold goes a saying and so we boost our self worth on the cost of others and – which is kind of a paradox – on the cost of ourselves.
For capitalism the Austrian citizen is a model example for the perfect drone. So my advice for all the G-States out there would be: Get yourself some Austrians, because the virus spreads. Once you have your Austrian to start a drone colony of workers that are easy to handle you'll see how others get infected. Because Austrians tend to complain all the time and your other workers will just give in one day and join. Don’t worry about all the complaining, it is necessary for them to work as I already explained. Even better: Try to give them at least one little thing a day to complain about. If you don’t you don’t have to worry too much though, usually they will just make something up to complain about.
(If I wasn’t a total anti-capitalist I would make a business out of it.)
I guess this also explains why it is so f****ing hard for any kind of resistance movement in Austria. It’s even hard for NGOs to survive. Thanks to §278a they are all the same anyway. And even more: they are all types of criminal organisations. Beware organized crime you got quite a load of competitors here.
It's a good example for how Austrians tick, because there are still quite a lot of people who actually think that if you are trialed you must have done something bad. The presumption of innocence is a rare good in Austria what is also reflected by the trial itself. The police tried to collect evidence over years and needed a disproportional amount of money, manpower and technology to invade a lot of people’s privacy without a proper reason to do so. Now of course they have to put a few randomly selected persons that don’t even know all the others in a courtroom and claim they are a really evil criminal organization when they in reality only are some individual animal rights activists from different groups that don’t even get along with each other. There's no evidence at all and still the trial continues, and now think about it: They weren’t able to do their work for month, I do believe they still haven’t got all the stuff back which was taken from them in the first place when their apartmentdoors were kicked in and they were woken with guns pointing at their faces.
It doesn’t make any sense to you that some animal rights activists were arrested that way? Well it doesn’t make any sense for me that they were under observation to begin with. You would expect that there happened a lot of crimes related to the animal rights movement over the years, but no, it's vanishingly small.
Austria got what it wanted, they don’t have a lot of time left for their activism and will be financially ruined by the end of the trial.
Am I painting too black? Am I kind of unfair to all those lovely Austrians out there that may or may not still exist? If so then only a little and what the heck, I’m an Austrian anyway, I need to complain at least once a day to feel good about myself. My advice to you: Claim all the doughnuts for us all, you can start by getting informed.
http://antirep2008.org/
http://tierschutzprozess.at/
2010-09-21
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