NoVax, and the revolution as a hobby.

I think I've talked in the past about this new distortion of the ego, which is the Western fashion of making revolutions as if they were hobbies. The life of Western man, in fact, is characterized by two things. The first is a certain amount of resources (time and money) in excess of needs. The second is the need to build an epic narrative of one's person.

On this lies the evil product of social networks, where hobbies are one of the coolest things to show to everyone, but you have to be sure to be seen by others.

The street revolt and the revolution therefore lend themselves very well to satisfying the need for hobbies of modern man.

• revolution as a hobby is an epic thing. You feel like a partisan, you are fighting against evil, you are a cross between a Star Wars character and BraveHeart. But how cool you are. You look in the mirror and you get naked.
• revolution as a hobby, especially it is socially visible, so it's not like building cuckoo clocks using Chinese sticks from restaurants, that friends don't come to visit you for fear that you will show them the whole collection.
• revolution as a hobby is optional. If that day you do not want to go to the square, do not go down, if you have to take the child to football you do not go, if you want to throw some money in pins or signs, go ahead, otherwise go to the "nature" square. It is also an economic hobby. Obviously, this is never done during business hours.

Obviously, in order for you to really have fun, some requirements must be met. The revolution must be repressed, of course, but not really repressed. I mean, Giuliani had a hobby of throwing fire extinguishers on the trucks, and they shot him. But can you really shoot a guy just because he has the hobby of making the Eiffel Tower out of used matches? Really?

While the "professional" revolutionaries risk imprisonment, torture, death, misery, the hobbyist expects not to suffer any consequences. If those who opposed the Tsar risked being shot by the Ochrana, the revolutionary hobbyist (or if you prefer the Saturday night partisan) certainly does not expect anyone to forbid him from going to the cinema if he is not vaccinated. It really is too much. Would you really forbid the cinema to a person just because as a hobby he observes the great tits in the park?

Revolution as a hobby, that is, is not expected to have SERIOUS consequences, because it is not serious.

If someone has a farm of 17,000 cows we expect them to undergo strict hygiene checks on cheese, but if I have the hobby of making mozzarella at home I don't expect the NAS to come to check. It's not serious, heck, it's just a hobby!

However, to satisfy his craving for a revolutionary hobbyist dairy, he must tell an epic story. He must therefore say that the ricotta “system” fears him, and therefore the condominium has decided that the dairy whey flows on the common scales must not exceed 150 liters. Do you see? Our partisan is uncomfortable, the system fears him, the Nazi repression has been triggered: just like the Jews in Auschwitz, he too cannot make more than 50Kg of cottage cheese a day at home by throwing the serum on the stairs of the condominium. Isn't that proof enough?

Same thing for the "fascists": it would be enough to restore the compulsory draft to see the disappearance of any fetishism for amphibians, militarism and bellicism in the youth who call themselves fascist, and to see the fascists take to the streets with the flag of peace, (do you know fascists who have they ever applied for permanent conscription in the armed forces?) but they continue their "revolution". If tomorrow a gay / lesbian couple had a gun in their pocket and two fascists in the mood for revolution were killed during an attack, controversy would open: is a collection of vintage vacuum cleaners really enough to get killed?

The no-vax, the no-tav, the cheghevarati, the fascists themselves, belong precisely to this great category: the revolutionary as a hobby. He who expects to be able to use time and money for his own leisure, perhaps in the company of others, without any consequence because it is not a serious matter, and without any obligation because he is not a professional. However, it must SEEM that something big and serious is happening: we are protesting against gluten-free wine, but we want the Ochrana to shoot at us to send our selfie on social media to look serious, but clearly they must be blank shots not to risk my skin: it's a hobby, you can't shoot me because I collect beer caps.

And so that QAnon vulgate is created: are they fighting a hegemony of Satanist pedophiles who control the world and want to exterminate the human species to replace it with reptiles, and are you surprised that you get a bat in the head? But if I believed your story, I would consider you lucky if you weren't impaled on a burning fir near Mordor! I mean, but did you understand who you would be fighting if what you say were true? But of course it's not true, it's just a hobby, it's not like you can duel these gentlemen below:

with a real sword, and maybe kill them. According to the Klingon fiction you can if they breathed too hard near your wife, but fuck, it's a hobby.

Similarly, if you send the SS with a machine gun to kill a novax who compares himself to the Jews, you are clearly exaggerating: he compared himself to the Jews, but it was a hobby, it was not "a serious thing", it is not that you can send him Dirlenwanger for REALLY.

It's like a game, it's not like you send the police to shoot kids who make cops and thieves. So the novax does not expect, I don't know, to be fired if he works in the hospital and makes the revolution: it is not a serious matter. It is a hobby.

Here, in the case of novax, a line must be drawn between what is true and what is not. I mean, if kids want to play cops and robbers it's OBVIOUS that the police shouldn't be shooting at them, but we'll all agree that these kids' toy guns shouldn't be lethal. Otherwise we have some reason to call the police.

Likewise, if you want to be a Klingon, no one has the right to kill you using unlikely edged weapons, but we must agree that you shouldn't try to mate with your cousin by growling and shouting warlike poems as she throws whatever objects she comes within range at you ( as the Klingons seem to do). Some cousins ​​may report you.

Here, the problem of novax comes when the Klingon club realizes that beheading the late bus driver and enslaving his family, a well-known Klingon custom, is not so popular in the world where even non- klingon. Let me be clear, I am not saying that it is a wrong thing: I am only saying that the police have atavistic prejudices towards those who do it.

So I have a proposal: given that the revolution as a hobby has also surpassed Zumba and the repair of Swiss cuckoo clocks, I would say that it is appropriate to organize it better.

I mean, you take a space on the outskirts, and dedicate it to those who have the hobby of revolution. Like those places made for skaters, but bigger. You put on some extras dressed as Tsarist police, or as SS (you can find them a lot a kilo by now), or as French gendarmes, you put on some building that resembles the Bastille or the Hermitage, and at that point the revolution is made to hobby, say Sunday afternoon.

It would be like doing historical re-enactment: you know those guys who recall the Celts, make fake battles with fake Romans (from which, it is clear, they come out unscathed), or those who every year go to redo the battle of Waterloo? Here, such a thing, but for revolutionaries.

You could ask Disney to make it more realistic, with different attractions, depending on the revolution that one wants to do: French, American, Bolshevik, simple peasant revolt, novax, Cuban revolution, Star Wars, in short, to differentiate the hobby.

• hello, had a good weekend?
• well, I did sports: 15 km of Long March of MAO.
• Damn, I envy you, that's why you're so skinny.
• Yes, but actually I would like to start with something more traditional, like the Spartacus revolt. My club is opening a trail.
• Ah. And what do you like?
• Well, you know, the Chinese proletariat is a beautiful thing, it is very current, but I must say that the story of Spartacus fascinates me. You identify with Spartacus.

Here, I think we should normalize these new hobbies, like QAnon. A beautiful scenario of assault on the American parliament, a beautiful set where to save children from the ritual to extract adenochrome, in my opinion it would be satisfying. As well as municipal Skate rinks exist and Rammstein concerts take place under the supervision of the fire brigade.

For example, it would be very nice if someone set up a painting and DIY workshop for these people:

That you really can't see a demonstration with A4 signs: shit, it seems to be in the office: “door alarmed”. Only Powerpoint is missing. "I am the resistance" on the shirt, without even the symbol of Ohm, is pathetic: it looks like one of those company party gadgets. "And which team were you on in table football?" "The resistance".

Imagine if they could show multicolored signs, or t-shirts with DAFT Punk faces on them: it would be a whole different thing.

Here, this thing is missing. We are full of revolutionary hobbyists who can't find spaces to express their creativity, and we can't leave the revolution to Facebook.

Here, then, it would be time for governments to notice: the hobby of revolution exists. It is not a serious matter (otherwise the harsh persecution of the participants would not produce all this annoyance), but it would be possible to make a lot of money and attract tourism: who would not want to see the fourth state that is agitated in the homeland of Giuseppe Pelizza from Volpedo?

And then give them these spaces to do things well, in an aesthetically satisfying way, maybe you shoot them with mild tear gas, beat them with some fake truncheon, so you can take selfies, and it ends there, around nine in the evening. every Sunday.

It's not serious, it's the Revolution as a hobby.

And if you happen to want to do a job with it, well, you start with the terracotta hobby and you never know where you are going.