One of the rising forces in the world is the radical right. Do you know why they call it “radical”? It’s to marginalize them. The word “radical” inherently means extreme, so it accuses all the patterns of behavior that humans have carried through a million years of history of extremism. If there’s anything truly extreme, it’s the age we live in.
Whenever they see a radical right-winger, they immediately compare him to Hitler and the Nazis. Even more frightening, if a person acts on their impulses or gets a little angry, they are compared to a monster. If someone loudly points out a mistake they see, they are called angry. In reality, they are marginalizing us and the emotions that make us who we are. What we call the radical right today is actually the essence of humanity, the core values that have sustained us for centuries.
By calling them radical, we deny our own essence. The people we demonize today will be everywhere tomorrow, just like the people we look down on today as despicable and wretched.
When we see the radical right, we immediately put a picture of Adolf Hitler. So I’m going to put a picture of a radical flower: the snowdrop. Because despite being marginalized, humiliated and oppressed, these people continue to exist and will continue to exist, represented by this flower.
There has never been a time in the world when radicalism has been so absent for so long, but the world has never been on the brink of such great chaos in its history. The reason for this is that the massive bundle of problems covered by the falsehood called “goodness” is slowly spilling out from under the rug under which it has been pushed.
The people we have swept under the rug are like snowdrops-bowed, yet resilient. You cannot ignore these people any longer. They are coming to raise their voices, to make their presence felt, and to expose those of you who wear the mask of fascism. Society has become like an ostrich burying its head in the sand, turning into a mass of people who only talk to escape their own problems, realities, and helplessness. Global warming and overpopulation have brought us to the point where words have run out. As British broadcaster and biologist David Attenborough has been saying for almost 40 years, we have reached the age of global catastrophe. At this point, I don’t think anyone is right, but I refuse to accept those who brought us here and still consider others marginal.
