Leonardo DiCaprio, tar sands opponents call on Canada’s Prime Minister, Shell CEO in
- Thread starter B00Mer
- Start date
I have something you can watch....
www.youtube.com/user/AllAcesMedia
a man and his wife document his progression through ALS...
here's a trailer..
www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-FpROeybeI
For those in the know, Britain’s Stonehenge has long been an unseemly symbol of the fossil fuel industry. Sitting prominently on the Salisbury Plain, it is a dystopian monument to environmental degradation, pollution and rapacious capitalism. It is for these reasons that Just Stop Oil quite rightly vandalized and sprayed orange paint on the UNESCO World Heritage site to draw further attention to the climate crisis.
The Stonehenge stunt is just the latest in a series of lunatic environmental activist tactics which they somehow believe generates sympathy for their cause. The goal is simple: by vandalizing objects of cultural significance, Just Stop Oil believes they highlight that which we value as a society is wrong because the environment isn’t protected enough. They know this is to be true, and society’s values to be collectively wrong, based on the rock solid evidence that Just Stop Oil says so.
(I chose this thread to post into because it doesn’t have “Greta” in the title to distract, etc…)
apple.news
It’s not easy to pinpoint the very first instance of art vandalism, but one of the first notable acts was activists glueing themselves to a painting called My Heart’s In The Highlands in Glasgow at the end of June, 2022. Subsequently, in October, 2022, Van Gogh’s Sunflowers became one of the first to have tomato soup thrown on them. Numerous other instances followed, with even the Mona Lisa getting her dose of vitamin C from another rogue tomato soup can this past January.
In the above instances the paintings ultimately survived behind protective glass. In March, however, the portrait of Lord Balfour at Cambridge University was seriously damaged when, not being behind glass, it was slashed and sprayed with red paint to protest his involvement in the creation of Israel. Cultural vandalism has moved on from just the environment to politics more generally.
(Uh-oh…Israel is mentioned in passing…)
In so far as lasting damage goes, Stonehenge ultimately will fare much better than other, more fragile, works of art. It is mercifully quite difficult to seriously harm 25-ton blocks of rock. And yet, in their defacement of Stonehenge, the Just Stop Oil loons have managed to disgrace themselves even further than they had previously. Rest at above link.
Happy Pre-Summer Solstice!!
For despite the demented nature of the soup protests, the sad reality is that in our current cultural moment, it is relatively easy for activists to justify vandalizing objects of European cultural value under the name of oppression or colonialism.
(Oh Shit! Both Colonialism & European are both mentioned in passing now too)
To the protesters, the fact that the environment is now under threat is merely an extension of, what is to them, illegitimate ideas such as capitalism created by malicious white men of yore. And so, a little vandalism directed at European art is just par for the anti-capitalist course.
The Stonehenge stunt is just the latest in a series of lunatic environmental activist tactics which they somehow believe generates sympathy for their cause. The goal is simple: by vandalizing objects of cultural significance, Just Stop Oil believes they highlight that which we value as a society is wrong because the environment isn’t protected enough. They know this is to be true, and society’s values to be collectively wrong, based on the rock solid evidence that Just Stop Oil says so.
(I chose this thread to post into because it doesn’t have “Greta” in the title to distract, etc…)
Adam Pankratz: Just Stop Oil's deranged Stonehenge attack goes beyond mere idiocy — National Post
Imagine if protesters defaced an Indigenous heritage site in Canada?
In the above instances the paintings ultimately survived behind protective glass. In March, however, the portrait of Lord Balfour at Cambridge University was seriously damaged when, not being behind glass, it was slashed and sprayed with red paint to protest his involvement in the creation of Israel. Cultural vandalism has moved on from just the environment to politics more generally.
(Uh-oh…Israel is mentioned in passing…)
In so far as lasting damage goes, Stonehenge ultimately will fare much better than other, more fragile, works of art. It is mercifully quite difficult to seriously harm 25-ton blocks of rock. And yet, in their defacement of Stonehenge, the Just Stop Oil loons have managed to disgrace themselves even further than they had previously. Rest at above link.
Happy Pre-Summer Solstice!!
For despite the demented nature of the soup protests, the sad reality is that in our current cultural moment, it is relatively easy for activists to justify vandalizing objects of European cultural value under the name of oppression or colonialism.
(Oh Shit! Both Colonialism & European are both mentioned in passing now too)
To the protesters, the fact that the environment is now under threat is merely an extension of, what is to them, illegitimate ideas such as capitalism created by malicious white men of yore. And so, a little vandalism directed at European art is just par for the anti-capitalist course.
Hardly. The first we know of was the graffito "Arkhon son of Amoibikhos inscribed us, and Peleqos son of nobody," on the leg of a statue of Ramses II, in 591 BCE.
Was it over climate change though? Israel? European colonialism? More of a Kilroy was here?
I've always suspected that the hand prints high up on cave walls count more as "graffiti" than "art." Basically "Look how high up I got!"
Kinda the original "Kilroy was here." Arkhon and Peleqos were probably Greek mercenaries.
Anywho…in (at?) Stonehenge, Just Stop Oil is attacking an object of our shared humanity. It is vandalizing a sacred temple of the ancient and indigenous people of Britain. It should, in that regard boil the blood of every sane person that these activist-vandals feel empowered and justified in their actions. This is no longer a representation of “the other side of the debate” but a cult of eco-religious extremism that should be met with equal force the other way.
Imagine the equivalent here in Canada. To make a point about my world or political views I decide to go chop down a totem pole on Haida Gwaii. Or torch a long house. Or spray-painted Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. I would rightly be run out of town and excommunicated from society. So too should we now treat eco-vandals who think assaults on our most precious cultural artifacts are justified because they aren’t getting their way.
The past years have been characterized by a majority of people being brow beaten, threatened, cancelled and cowed because a screaming band of activists demanded society conform to their extreme views. The evidence that these baying hordes must be repulsed and shut down is now beyond any doubt. In Stonehenge, the collective cultural legacy of the world was assaulted. It’s time to just stop, Just Stop Oil and their ilk, etc…
Imagine the equivalent here in Canada. To make a point about my world or political views I decide to go chop down a totem pole on Haida Gwaii. Or torch a long house. Or spray-painted Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump. I would rightly be run out of town and excommunicated from society. So too should we now treat eco-vandals who think assaults on our most precious cultural artifacts are justified because they aren’t getting their way.
The past years have been characterized by a majority of people being brow beaten, threatened, cancelled and cowed because a screaming band of activists demanded society conform to their extreme views. The evidence that these baying hordes must be repulsed and shut down is now beyond any doubt. In Stonehenge, the collective cultural legacy of the world was assaulted. It’s time to just stop, Just Stop Oil and their ilk, etc…
Last edited: