I think it could be a lot of things. "It didn't accomplish anything" is a weak criticism from behind a keyboard, people don't have a ton of levers to pull that don't carry the risk of being locked in a cage for decades. Furthermore you don't actually know if it accomplished anything or not, it only just happened.
Like just off the top of my head it could be a direct attack on the niceties of the bourgeois. The rich are destroying the earth, so we can target and destroy things that the rich treasure in retaliation. It could be a forcing of the contradiction that caring about preserving art during an apocalypse is on it's face ridiculous, sparking conversation about how trivial Euro art is in the face of a climate holocaust. It could be something else I didn't think of in five minutes. But the idea that the only thing it could be is for awareness-raising as if there are many people unaware about climate change seems like a failure of imagination.
a direct attack on the niceties of the bourgeois. The rich are destroying the earth, so we can target and destroy things that the rich treasure in retaliation. It could be a forcing of the contradiction that caring about preserving art during an apocalypse is on it’s face ridiculous
This was my immediate take but the 'this is stupid/fed shit' reaction being pretty much universal has made me basically keep it to myself
Sneaking a can of soup into a museum is also just... really cheap? How much did this cost to pull off? 2 people, 2 museum tickets (if that particular museum required an admittance fee at all), and a can of soup. Museum tickets aren't THAT expensive, nor is soup. This could be pulled off by anyone in a matter of hours with no real preparation, training, or major financing and now they're on the covers of god knows how many media publications. Considering how much attention they're getting vs. how much they put into pulling this off, the cost-benefit ratio is incredible
people don’t have a ton of levers to pull that don’t carry the risk of being locked in a cage for decades.
You're right, but the stakes are the chance that our species survives the next few hundred years. Global warming is already so far advanced that the deaths of hundreds of millions if not billions of people are probably inevitable regardless of any action we take. Most people, including myself, haven't come to grips with the reality that we're all walking dead.
If people ever really internalize that they won't be gluing themselves to paintings. They'll be rushing exxon properties in human waves and merrily carryinh bombs in to oil depots.
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I think it could be a lot of things. "It didn't accomplish anything" is a weak criticism from behind a keyboard, people don't have a ton of levers to pull that don't carry the risk of being locked in a cage for decades. Furthermore you don't actually know if it accomplished anything or not, it only just happened.
Like just off the top of my head it could be a direct attack on the niceties of the bourgeois. The rich are destroying the earth, so we can target and destroy things that the rich treasure in retaliation. It could be a forcing of the contradiction that caring about preserving art during an apocalypse is on it's face ridiculous, sparking conversation about how trivial Euro art is in the face of a climate holocaust. It could be something else I didn't think of in five minutes. But the idea that the only thing it could be is for awareness-raising as if there are many people unaware about climate change seems like a failure of imagination.
This was my immediate take but the 'this is stupid/fed shit' reaction being pretty much universal has made me basically keep it to myself
Sneaking a can of soup into a museum is also just... really cheap? How much did this cost to pull off? 2 people, 2 museum tickets (if that particular museum required an admittance fee at all), and a can of soup. Museum tickets aren't THAT expensive, nor is soup. This could be pulled off by anyone in a matter of hours with no real preparation, training, or major financing and now they're on the covers of god knows how many media publications. Considering how much attention they're getting vs. how much they put into pulling this off, the cost-benefit ratio is incredible
You're right, but the stakes are the chance that our species survives the next few hundred years. Global warming is already so far advanced that the deaths of hundreds of millions if not billions of people are probably inevitable regardless of any action we take. Most people, including myself, haven't come to grips with the reality that we're all walking dead.
If people ever really internalize that they won't be gluing themselves to paintings. They'll be rushing exxon properties in human waves and merrily carryinh bombs in to oil depots.
But we're not their yet.