fix the system | killthelogo

1. killthelogo's raison d'être

#fixthesystem

This is our premise: the system is broken, tainted, corrupted, … and we need to break the loop. There is a definite need to undermine the ruling power structures. A big reboot or a gradual change? What do you think?

#thebigreboot

Leaving the ruling powers unchecked and unchallenged, they will lead us to an ever worsening dystopia. If we want another future, we will have to build one ourselves.

#reinventpower

the killthelogo project is all about self-empowering people. Pointing them towards their best potential. And in our view that requires cooperation and inspiration. We are not a new idea. We are part of an existing anti-establishment, anti-status quo movement and seek to connect with all likeminded parties.

2. If you ask us: what is wrong?

Ξ The system is rigged and welded shut for wealth extraction

Ξ The masses feel and are effectively powerless

Politicians don’t operate in the interest of citizens. Voting is a pointless effort of which the results are either completely orchestrated or openly falsified, to fit a predefined agenda. Left or Right may be in play on the surface, but in the background, a totally different high-level strategy is being served.
Politics have become completely subservient to the industrial realm. They are 100% complicit and ultra-corrupt. Since the early 80ies, we have moved from an era of big politics to an era of complete industry control that has gradually tapered off all forms of accountability. So we are actually managed by an unelected and unaccountable elite. That is not normal in a democratic society. It is not even democracy anymore.
The grassroots devices of citizen manifestation or participation have been rendered completely ineffectual. Political parties are dead, unions are dead. Social movements are driven apart through polarisation or violently crushed.

If you don’t think that’s wrong, you’re the one doing the damage.

Ξ The status quo is forcefully protected

We’re all being increasingly commodified: working ever longer hours for ever less money. Gradually being transformed to an entire planet of working poor. We are processed as raw materials and disposed of as waste.
We’re in a cycle of redefined slavery. Industry is doing everything to increase our dependency on their products and to raise the rate of recurrency of our purchases. Complex legal structures are erected to disable citizens from living outside this dependency, without completely marginalising themselves.

If you don’t think that’s wrong, you’re the one doing the damage.

3. If you ask us: what can I do?

#wearenotmeaningless

All our actions can be meaningful. Be creative! Help your leaders to understand that they are accountable to us.

Don’t you get the feeling that politicians and industry leaders are laughing in our faces when we ask them to do better? We are offered an abundance of tools for participation and expression, but in reality all these mechanisms are completely ineffectual. They are part of the debate, but never become part of policy. It's a charade.

#consumerdisobedience

Our most powerful reaction is to ‘deconsume’: buy less, buy quality, buy local, buy cruelty-free, buy fair trade, … Buy against them.

The redistribution of wealth starts with undermining the wealth-extraction structures of the elite. And those are based largely on our consumer behaviours. Help each other to circumvent the rules.

#throwmorepies

Put political and industry leaders to shame by throwing food items in their face on public places, in front of cameras.

Preferably use stuff that looks a little kitsch. A rich, juicy, creamy pie, has proven its use on many occasions. And it’s not a real crime to embarrass an idiot, is it?

#weareallthesame

All sides are being played and manipulated to keep us apart. So let’s do the opposite: unite & include.

Actively talk to your antagonists about the things that unite us, not the things that divide us. We are all humans, wanting to live long, healthy, happy, comfortable, safe lives. Learn to look beyond our superficial differences and it will be overly clear that the petty battles we fight, are instigated from above to make sure we can never unite against them.

#perfectionnotrequired

We’d love you to do what you can and feel comfortable with. Act according to your power. All actions matter.

We are just like you, greatly flawed and imperfect. And we are not asking for perfection from anyone. We just hope to rekindle your sense of participation and community.

#theirresistibleforce

How can we change the course of things with small, feasible, easy actions? How can the sum of us become a gentle but irresistible force?

killthelogo is a cultural project – in the shape of a sound and a narrative – keen on investigating the linchpins of consumer and citizen power. If enough of us press the little buttons, the balance will shift.

#directangerupward

The elite always plays our fears, to pit us against each other. Don't fight your peers. Direct your anger upwards. And aim high!

There is a raw anger and it has been brewing for decades. We have been misgoverned and mismanaged to the point that the social contract we made with our rulers is dead. They amass all wealth, while we get less of everything: security, protection, respect, participation, expression, freedom, …