Why the ongoing massive protests in Europe and elsewhere cannot produce a profound change. For that to happen something more is needed

In France live 66.788.480 people of which 5,4 million are youngsters aged between 18 to 24/25. In Italy live aproximately 58,9 million people of which 4, 7 million are of the age between 18 and 25. Two countries in which there have been or are still going on massive rallies, but not so massive that they involve millions of youngsters and great part of the rest of the population.
And the governments of these 2 countries are still in place.

In Albania live 2,3 to 2,75 millions people of which aproximately 280.000 of the age between 18 and 25 years old. And massive rallies against the government are taking place for already
at least a month if not longer. But the government are still in place.

In Serbia live aproximately 6,6 million people, 520.000 to 540.000 are in the age between 18 and 25 years old. Here, after months of rallies against the government, headed by students, the student movement constitued itself as a party to be able to participate in the general elections, and they won these elections with the support of older voters. A vote for change.

For sure all these events are showing us that a new sensibility has been awakened and growing. A sensibility that expresses itself in one aspect that is equally present in all the protests, namely the desire for a profound change and the end of a system, politically and otherwise, that have perpetuated economical, psychological, racial and social violence up to the point that the populations have become only a number on the chessboard of macro economical and financial interests.

Since 2023 till today massive pro-palestinian rallies has taken place all over the world in answer to the genocide Israel was and still is conducting against the Palestinian population in Gaza and the recently exponential increase of violence against the Population in the West Bank. But nothing has changed. Israel has still the support of all the governments of the West, apart from some weak diplomatic expressions of admonishing Israel to stop.

In all the here mentioned examples, and for sure there are mamy more, the system and its governments are in place and its machinary goes on functioning, with ever greater violence. A profound change cannot happen just by protests of a relatively small part of a total population. A profound change can also not happen, even if you won a general election, as happened in Serbia. You will go up in the machinary of the system with its unchanged political organisation and rules, made long before you managed to enter the arena. You cannot ask the system to change because it will not work. We have seen it happening more than once. A new and fresh party with new and refreshing ideas, that within a rather short time is eaten up by the system and in some cases even become the opposit of its original ideology. That is how this system functions. A system based on violence, a system that is perpetuing itself by ensuring it stays in power. And all who get inside, are progressively corrupted by it.

This is not a very encouraging view on all the protests and all the energy invested in them. People have been protesting for a better life since the industrial revolution. At moments it seemed advances were made, but at the end the circle comes round and we find ourselves in the same unfavorable situation again. The system and its exibitors always win at the end.

As long as we demand from this system and its politicians the changes we want, what we do in fact is, asking daddy to make our lives better. We make ourselves dependent from the system, over and over again. The system knows that and is very prepared to create illusions to make us calm down and go to work and to school again by making promises it will not keep. So acting within this system has no solution.

That does not mean that we cannot produce a profound change in a new and properous direction for everyone. But to achieve that we must stop the system.

We have to stop supporting this system by going on working for it. We have to stop. Stop going to work, stop going to school. Not just one or two days. No, at least for two weeks. For two weeks nobody goes to their work. Not in the factories, not in the bank offices, not in the ports, nowhere. And then let us see what all those who said that without money nothing can be produced, will produce with a banknote. Nothing, the banknote stays a banknote and it produces nothing. We, the working force in all the sectors of society, we produce everything there is.

When this fact installs itself in everybodies mind, this system will end, it cannot function anymore. And then we can start a new beginning. With all the production in our hands, and deciding what we want to produce fort he betterment of all and what we do not want to produce, beginning with not producing any more weapons and dismanteling the weapons that still are there. We can start using the technological advancements to create a paradise on earth for everyone. And there will not be ceo’s who decide for us.

This fundamental change is possible, this world free of all violences is possible. But it needs a worldwide awakening of the consciousness, it needs a beating heart that starts beating with the hearts of all the others, one big heart that wants to end all suffering, a heart that recognize that I exist because you exist. A common power no government, no army can stop. And the world will change in a heartbeat.

Lets hope this will start to happen, in different places on earth, and spreading because of social media. We will need to overcome the fear of loosing, of loosing a job, of loosing money, of… We will need to develope a deep common feeling of solidarity, of no one will be left alone.

This new world is waiting for us. But we have to do our part.

Peter Noordendorp