The reflective vest that I carry next to the driver’s seat has been making me nervous lately. It’s orange. If I had to change my bike, I would look like that in the orange as a slipper, someone who is happy with a ridiculous retirement, does not mind the freezing homeless and leaves the usury for the cold. The rebel-wearing man wears a yellow vest. This outdoor supplement of a self-confident middle class comes from France, which traditionally dictates fashion and revolutionary trends.
The orange vest is all right as a luxury Ferrari, driven by someone who runs in a carcinogenic pesticide business, hormones, and monocultures, or profits from the privatization of public property. If I walk through the orange, not the yellow vest, no one thinks I could have anything against the tax frauds of the ultra-rich, that I am for the separation of normal banking from investment banking and against participation in aggressive foreign wars.
Rather, I will look like someone who, by rejecting the yellow vest, demonstrates support for “migratory waves that can not be accommodated or integrated because of the civil crisis we are facing”, and still enjoys the pollution of the world with plastic packaging!
My orange vest with reflective tapes does not miss anything. It is perfect, unspoiled. As a person who does not like throwing away the stuff, I would prefer if our representatives would come to fashionable yellow. After all, it is in their interest to ban the participation of lobbyists in political decision-making. They cannot be interested in the media monopoly and their interference with politics. And their health is also influenced by the policy of large pharmaceutical companies. Who else than my deputy should fly in a yellow vest for civil liberties and face public interference in education, health, or family?
Something tells me, however, that deputies and senators will not come to the parliament in the yellow vests. More likely, annoyed citizens in yellow vests of one beautiful day of parliamentarians will bring to frugal reality.
According to my life experience, those who say today that the yellow vest is a fashionable fad that does not look, they have one for sure in the closet. In order to fit, the yellow will win. I’d rather leave an orange for the general revision of the outfit. There must be a reflective material on it.