Everybody is talking about the (glass shielded) painting, the tomato soup, the vandalism, nobody is talking about the climate. The most "Just Stop Oil" achieved was creating cognitive dissonance in the public, the reaction to which ranges from denial to aggression. "Just Stop Oil" not only defeated its own message, it increased the public's disregard for the climate. And yes, "art is more important than life".
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And yet the books will be there on the shelves, separate beings,
That appeared once, still wet
As shining chestnuts under a tree in autumn,
And, touched, coddled, began to live
In spite of fires on the horizon, castles blown up,
Tribes on the march, planets in motion.
“We are,” they said, even as their pages
Were being torn out, or a buzzing flame
Licked away their letters. So much more durable
Than we are, whose frail warmth
Cools down with memory, disperses, perishes.
I imagine the earth when I am no more:
Nothing happens, no loss, it’s still a strange pageant,
Women’s dresses, dewy lilacs, a song in the valley.
Yet the books will be there on the shelves, well born,
Derived from people, but also from radiance, heights.
When the man died, his library was dissolved, his books dispersed. Some found a way into other libraries, some went into the bin. In fact, the library dissolved like the man's body, his organs and cells disintegrating till they found a new home in other beings or in the soil.
Honour a library. It's not the books, the material carriers, that count. It's the layers of invisibility that matter. Everything real cannot be seen nor touched.
« This is a great power conflict, the third great power conflict in the European space in a little over a century. It’s the end of the existing world order. Our world is not going to be the same as it was before. [...]
Right from the very beginning, Putin himself has said that he is refighting World War II. So, the hyperbole has come from Vladimir Putin, who has said that he’s reversing all of the outcomes territorially from World War I and also, in effect, World War II and the Cold War. He’s not accepting the territorial configuration of Europe as it currently is. »
[And people still shut their eyes and think appeasement is the way-out.]