Activists splatter 'Mona Lisa' with soup in Louvre Museum in Paris

submitted by PanzersGhost from abcnews.go.com

sorted by:
top
newinsightfulfun
you are viewing a single comment's thread.

view the rest of the comments →

[–]TemporarilyDeceased 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

They could do this every day and the only outcome would be that art museums would close, making society worse. This doesn't help make food more affordable or lower the carbon impact of farming. What an effort-free life these people must lead to think that things can be produced without effort. Effort either requires massive human input and very high cost or automation that uses energy. Wasting food doesn't solve this.

[–]no_u 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't agree with them, but I do agree with the climate activists who smeared cake on the Mona Lisa. The Louvre and other museums will obviously cope. A bit of Windex and some towels will get that soup off of the glass. Cost = $100, max. Meanwhile, look at how much attention this brings to the problems of climate change. As for more welfare money to feed the poor, I don't know enough about that problem to comment on it. It's likely a very worthy cause.

[–]TemporarilyDeceased 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Everyone is aware of climate change. Stunts like this don't raise awareness, but they do make climate activists look like fools. Coke doesn't raise awareness for their product by dumping hundreds of gallons of Coke into the Mississippi River, they advertise.

[–]no_u 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Stunts like this don't raise awareness

But you're aware of it. It's relatively harmless and resulted in widespread news coverage. It's brilliant. Protests in the streets haven't been covered appropriately by news media, if at all. This was at least reported (though in this cause for a different cause).

[–]TemporarilyDeceased 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

resulted in widespread news coverage. It's brilliant. Protests in the streets haven't been covered appropriately by news media, if at all. This was at least reported (though in this cause for a different cause).

I was aware of it before. It's like brain cancer awareness month: it isn't like people had no idea brain cancer existed until May.