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The destruction of communities

How the managerial state wages war on its own people

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Robbert Leusink
Nov 16, 2025
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This week it was announced that the village of Moerdijk will be demolished. Its demolition is a Sword of Damocles. Nothing new, but it came unannounced.

Moerdijk has existed since 967, first as Sprangblok. Families have been living there for generations, churches established, graves of their ancestors. But that does not matter to the technocrats. They decided on filling the entire North Sea with windmills, so the village must make room for their terminals.

This is what happens when politicians forget what a community is.

The village of Moerdijk, North Brabant, Netherlands

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What is a Community?

The modern state has no idea what a community is. And so it destroys them willingly. Since all people are the same. ‘We always have been a country of immigration’ and similar myths they push on us.

A community is the antithesis of managerial thinking.

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