those anti-oil environmental protestors throwing soup on a Van Gogh painting instead of growing some balls and assassinating an oil baron or ransacking a pipeline construction site at the very least. we need 1970s environmental activism back.
FBI I am totally joking btw just a hehe haha joke I love crude oil I love gas pipelines
In my opinion, the protest was a failure. They succeeded in getting attention but not attention for their cause. They wanted us to feel the rage and frustration they feel about the environment, we all feel rage and frustration but it is mainly towards them and not the oil industry. Their actions were too abstract to get the effect they wanted. They hurt and inconvenience museum staff, not the oil industry. The painting is fine, by the way, but there is minor damage to the frame.
I think we need more radical acceptance that some people dislike us for reasons that make sense for their life experience. and we need to do this in a way that doesn’t paint us as misunderstood victims because the fact of the matter is everyone is annoying to someone. you can’t avoid that. and if someone is annoyed by you they aren’t wrong about you being annoying and unlikable to them. the sooner we accept this the sooner we accept ourselves. we don’t even like ourselves most of the time so why should we expect other people to uncritically enjoy every aspect of us regardless of our own internal struggle with our own extreme contrasts
