If this is another Just Stop Oil one, then they more or less clear the stunt with museums beforehand. At least in the article I read about the soup or whatever, they had checked to make sure that the painting wouldn't be harmed
Yeah not to lean too heavily on Chapo Thought, but climate change awareness has been at saturation for a while now. Wrecking stuff to bully elites into compliance won't really work (unlike [redacted]), but at least it would be something they actually don't like.
This is just managing public discourse, and it apparently only takes the barest effort to do
Honestly the best thing which could come out of more destructive actions is changing the split in the non-fringe climate movement orgs from if mild civil disobedience is acceptable as a means to if more radical means are acceptable.
My local group had an internal fight which I swear could have imploded it the first time the mildest of vandalism was suggested.
politics is a performance. leon czolgosz said "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people -- the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. I am sorry I could not see my father." And they gave him an Oscar.
Politics is a performance in general, but there's transformative performance and meaningless. Isolated adventurism in general goes nowhere even if you pull a Czolgosz. Doing something like that might give organisers more of a propaganda win but it won't do the work of organising. Building momentum around movements and ultimately parties is what gives the goal enough weight to resist reaction.
If this is another Just Stop Oil one, then they more or less clear the stunt with museums beforehand. At least in the article I read about the soup or whatever, they had checked to make sure that the painting wouldn't be harmed
It's why I dislike them so much
https://www.energylivenews.com/2022/10/25/granddaughter-of-oil-billionaire-funds-just-stop-oil-protests/
Anything performative is recuperative.
Yeah not to lean too heavily on Chapo Thought, but climate change awareness has been at saturation for a while now. Wrecking stuff to bully elites into compliance won't really work (unlike [redacted]), but at least it would be something they actually don't like.
This is just managing public discourse, and it apparently only takes the barest effort to do
Honestly the best thing which could come out of more destructive actions is changing the split in the non-fringe climate movement orgs from if mild civil disobedience is acceptable as a means to if more radical means are acceptable.
My local group had an internal fight which I swear could have imploded it the first time the mildest of vandalism was suggested.
politics is a performance. leon czolgosz said "I killed the President because he was the enemy of the good people -- the good working people. I am not sorry for my crime. I am sorry I could not see my father." And they gave him an Oscar.
Politics is a performance in general, but there's transformative performance and meaningless. Isolated adventurism in general goes nowhere even if you pull a Czolgosz. Doing something like that might give organisers more of a propaganda win but it won't do the work of organising. Building momentum around movements and ultimately parties is what gives the goal enough weight to resist reaction.