FATBIKES, het nieuwe Chinese wonderwapen!

FATBIKES, het nieuwe Chinese wonderwapen!

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Are the Dutch the dumbest people cycling around this globe, or are we just pretending. Is it the republicans in America who rival us in stupidity? These vernacular questions swirled through my mind like fallen autumn leaves as I was overtaken against the wind by a 12-year-old on an electric scooter without lights. I tearfully tried to keep my cool and climb the slope after the little tunnel in the Amsterdamse straatweg at a reasonable pace. My personal Mont Ventoux I might add. Without being partisan, can you count the Dutch as the backward people or is it mainly a sign of stubbornness. A kind of peasant obstinacy left over from the days when all residents of the water board were bickering about the correct height of the dykes to do their part to stop the rising waters threatening their neighbour’s farmyard. Which led to the loss of the Grote Waard in 1421 after the Sent-Elizabeth flood. The flip side of the much vaunted polder model. It could also be, I almost thought arriving at the large-grand grocer Dirk van de Broek that the mercantile spirit traditionally attributed to us has made us allergic to any government intervention, because it means spreading profits over more heads like butter. More cuckoo boys and odd ducks have to be fed. Which must concern any Calvinist grocer as a sworn enemy of those filthy foreign wasters, against the goodness of their breast or ass pocket.

It seems, I thought while locking my bike, thieves are of all times and all nationalities, that the Dutch collectively suffer from a compulsion neurosis, a fear of coercion. Commonly referred to by the fearmongers on the right of the political spectrum as government intervention. In their world view, a compulsive original sin against constitutional rights freedoms due to the scaremongers’ constant fear that someone else will eat their conservatively beleaguered Gouda cheese off the brown slice of whole wheat bread. They, as in the fairy tale for the children of Little Tom Thumb, are left with the mashed-up crumbs like miceisses, leaving them utterly astray and unable to find their way back to sanity. The fact that many members among the population are averse to anything that smacks of coercion was already evident during the corona crisis now as almost four years ago. Coercion at that time was translated by the neurotic part of the population with the surrender of their freedom, their precious prerogatives, and was seen as an attack on their physical and mental integrity. Without wanting to realise that the greatest attack on anyone’s physical integrity at the time was the transmission of an essentially fatal disease. A form of stubbornly continuing to deny the seriousness of the matter by me at the time, seen as a degeneration and dissolution of the rule of law and democracy by a far-reaching state of the selfishness of the airheads. Fortunately, the fear of death among the commoners proved to be greater than the vain opposition to vaccinations. Have we now found another more elegant way to collectively commit suicide disguised as voluntary euthanasia, overpopulate or take the oldies off the roads and lock them in safe nursing houses. The fat bike. The horse of China* on which today’s youth move as brazenly as recklessly and headstrongly, whether they ride like the four Heemskinderen on the steed Beiaard. Coincidentally, also a Frankish novel in which the protagonist opposes Charlemagne’s legitimate authority. A finger pointing at how popular nature is like a joust for power over who holds authority over the individual. Is that one hundred per cent man himself, or is he partly accountable not only to himself but also to others. Isn’t a corollary of this shared responsibility the helmet requirement for those who do not wish to obey any speed limit or traffic rule? Only by sharing and delegating responsibility can we prevent a war of all against all, * a war that today is being fought on the cycle track on the backs of those who do want to obey traffic rules so as not to fall prey to this new Chinese wonder weapon against Western civilisation. Because let’s face it. The ever industrious Chinese, the Dutch of Asia, may have invented gunpowder, but they have not got around to forming a democracy until now!

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