what is worth more art or life is it worth more than food worth more than

justice are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the

protection of our planet and people the cost of living crisis is poor. On

October 14th 2022 two young people approached Van Gogh's famous Sunflowers

painting in the National Gallery in London. They unzipped their jackets to

reveal just stop oil t-shirts opened cans of tomato soup and chucked it at the

painting. You'd hear the shock of some of the other museum goers in that video

there. What? Security! Oh my gosh! But the immediate response was nothing compared

to the onslaught of media coverage and commentary that followed. I can't think

of another protest in recent history that was so immediately the central

focus of the discourse. It's worth noting that the painting itself was not

damaged it was behind a glass of the soup only hit that glass display case. The

National Gallery later reported that the painting's frame had sustained minor

damage but that's it. That did not stop many commentators from referring to the

action as destruction or vandalism. It's about the destruction it is not about a

better world they're not going to school to learn how to create better tech to

care of the climate crisis and not figuring out how to geoengineer and not

doing something productive. They're doing something destructive because the

barbarians are about the destruction. These oil stopped the oil protestors back in

the UK. You started doing more and more acts of wanton vandalism. We got a

little mashup of their antics in the last few days. Those were conservative

commentators Ben Shapiro and Pierce Morgan but it wasn't just the usual

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