Another point: if we try to go into that deeper we might wanna compare maybe these three approaches:
1.) Wynn Bruce who set himself on fire in front of the US Supreme Court in April 2022
2.) Activists gluing themselves to the street using superglue
3.) Teens throwing Campbell's tomato soup onto a Van Gogh Painting which is covered by protective glas.
The first two are a much clearer expression of desperation than the third one. The third one might be much more memorable because it is a good story and the people who need to hear it are probably not that much into the arts anyways. That means the third one is probably the most effective at communicating the goal and will weirdly enough stay in our minds longer than the guy who set himself on fire.
Yet you have to respect someone who so deeply cared about the planet, that he gave his life without screaming just to wake us up.
One truth is, that not everybody is capable of going down every road. For this man setting himself on fire was the way to address the problem that faces all of us – even if he could have used his life in more boring, but maybe also more effective ways. For the teens it was a very clever move involving tomato soup. For these activists in their isolation, it is gluing themselves to the street in front of the machines they perceive to be part of the problem. All of the three had the goal to break the regular flow of our lives with something that should make us listen.
1.) Wynn Bruce who set himself on fire in front of the US Supreme Court in April 2022
2.) Activists gluing themselves to the street using superglue
3.) Teens throwing Campbell's tomato soup onto a Van Gogh Painting which is covered by protective glas.
The first two are a much clearer expression of desperation than the third one. The third one might be much more memorable because it is a good story and the people who need to hear it are probably not that much into the arts anyways. That means the third one is probably the most effective at communicating the goal and will weirdly enough stay in our minds longer than the guy who set himself on fire.
Yet you have to respect someone who so deeply cared about the planet, that he gave his life without screaming just to wake us up.
One truth is, that not everybody is capable of going down every road. For this man setting himself on fire was the way to address the problem that faces all of us – even if he could have used his life in more boring, but maybe also more effective ways. For the teens it was a very clever move involving tomato soup. For these activists in their isolation, it is gluing themselves to the street in front of the machines they perceive to be part of the problem. All of the three had the goal to break the regular flow of our lives with something that should make us listen.