Yes, yes, yes. I actually think this is a significant contributor to why liberal women in particular are so distressed - we’ve accepted a moral model (care about everyone) that is incompatible with the amount of information we have about tragedies and injustices that inevitably happen with 8 billion human beings. We need an adjustment to a structural philosophical model that lets us feel moral and good while being able to enjoy our own lives, while feeling like we’re doing enough to move toward justice for all.
Thanks for bringing up Stonehenge. I get what the protesters want to say, but defacing (however temporarily) something that has survived from the Neolithic isn’t making me feel very solidary with those who think that’s their best publicity.
It's terrible thinking on the PETA model of "all attention is good attention" when in fact it just makes the cause more marginalized. (If I were more conspiracy-theory minded, I'd almost think that the paint-sprayers were *funded* by fossil fuel companies, honestly.)
It feels willfully ignorant. Again, why wouldn’t I agree with those who want climate change made into a true priority, and I genuinely don’t care about some billionaire’s private plane, but…couldn’t they spray orange paint on the oil multinationals’ headquarters? You’re right. The multis might as well put these folk on payroll.
Yes, yes, yes. I actually think this is a significant contributor to why liberal women in particular are so distressed - we’ve accepted a moral model (care about everyone) that is incompatible with the amount of information we have about tragedies and injustices that inevitably happen with 8 billion human beings. We need an adjustment to a structural philosophical model that lets us feel moral and good while being able to enjoy our own lives, while feeling like we’re doing enough to move toward justice for all.
Thanks for bringing up Stonehenge. I get what the protesters want to say, but defacing (however temporarily) something that has survived from the Neolithic isn’t making me feel very solidary with those who think that’s their best publicity.
It's terrible thinking on the PETA model of "all attention is good attention" when in fact it just makes the cause more marginalized. (If I were more conspiracy-theory minded, I'd almost think that the paint-sprayers were *funded* by fossil fuel companies, honestly.)
It feels willfully ignorant. Again, why wouldn’t I agree with those who want climate change made into a true priority, and I genuinely don’t care about some billionaire’s private plane, but…couldn’t they spray orange paint on the oil multinationals’ headquarters? You’re right. The multis might as well put these folk on payroll.