i dunno, i think this differs from your standard lib attention-raising things because it really hits such a hard societal taboo, and thats why it has garnered so much attention. its not just libs occupying an intersection while sitting in a bathtub of spaghetti or whatever, that everyone rolls their eyes at these days. destruction of priceless western art is so abhorrent as to be unthinkable in our societal context, and i think raising the idea that climate change is such an urgent and overwhelming issue that people (and particularly white people) would even threaten destruction of something so "sacred" over it really is something new. and if people are angry enough to do something like that, who knows what else they might be angry enough to do?
im not sure it was necessarily the very best action or the best target but the more ive thought about it the more i err towards at least critical support
yeah but i guess thats part of the point right? that theyre not doing actual damage but are explicitly threatening that they could. and western art is seen as such a sacred thing that even that threat is getting attention and pissing people off kinda like if they actually did do damage
as a perhaps imperfect analogy, protest marches back in the day carried a similar explicit threat - theres a bunch of us here peacefully marching for now, but we could be doing something less peaceful in the streets if you ignore us. theyve long since been neutered of course, and theyre easily ignored now because everyone in power knows that a lib protest march now is never going to actually follow through with any sort of escalation any more. i think a new kind of action like this art thing carries some new potential threat of escalation to actual damage (or at least it cant be entirely ruled out for now) that perhaps might give some people a bit of pause?
i dunno, i think this differs from your standard lib attention-raising things because it really hits such a hard societal taboo, and thats why it has garnered so much attention. its not just libs occupying an intersection while sitting in a bathtub of spaghetti or whatever, that everyone rolls their eyes at these days. destruction of priceless western art is so abhorrent as to be unthinkable in our societal context, and i think raising the idea that climate change is such an urgent and overwhelming issue that people (and particularly white people) would even threaten destruction of something so "sacred" over it really is something new. and if people are angry enough to do something like that, who knows what else they might be angry enough to do?
im not sure it was necessarily the very best action or the best target but the more ive thought about it the more i err towards at least critical support
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My cave will have no lights?
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yeah but i guess thats part of the point right? that theyre not doing actual damage but are explicitly threatening that they could. and western art is seen as such a sacred thing that even that threat is getting attention and pissing people off kinda like if they actually did do damage
as a perhaps imperfect analogy, protest marches back in the day carried a similar explicit threat - theres a bunch of us here peacefully marching for now, but we could be doing something less peaceful in the streets if you ignore us. theyve long since been neutered of course, and theyre easily ignored now because everyone in power knows that a lib protest march now is never going to actually follow through with any sort of escalation any more. i think a new kind of action like this art thing carries some new potential threat of escalation to actual damage (or at least it cant be entirely ruled out for now) that perhaps might give some people a bit of pause?
but yeah the gluing hands thing seems pretty lib
Honestly, if you're not using welding torches and main structural members are you even trying?