A Sunday Short
Because I long ago discovered my tastes are relatively uncomplicated and I feel no need to feign refinement or any air of discriminating culture, I do not appreciate or comprehend the value of impressionist paintings from artists like Claude Monet, Edgar Degas or Pierre-Auguste Renoir. I am even less enthusiastic about paintings from post-modernistic illustrators like Paul Gauguin, Paul Cézanne, or Vincent Van Gogh. I’m so simplistic, I actually think 20-minute works by Bob Ross are OK – I will not go as far as Elvis on velvet though.
Consequently, I was rather astonished that Van Gogh’s painting entitled, “Sunflowers” which you can see below is worth $85 million dollars. I suppose my taste could be construed as modernistic realism or post-kindergartenism. Sorry, Vincent, I hope your ear is better and the gunshot healed.
I bring this up since two climate change vandals, from a misfit group called, “Just Stop Oil” threw two cans of Heinz tomato soup on this specific painting which is currently on display in London’s National Gallery. Perhaps John Kerry and his wife, Teresa Heinz who are some of the world’s most ardent climate advocates bequeathed the soup. Thereafter the two glued their hands to the wall. This is not an original act of this type for this dissident group.
These youth are so manipulated by eco-politicians, legacy presses, and other fanatical activists that they actually think they are truly serving a therapeutic purpose. The great attribute of progressivism in recruiting youth is that they know absolutely nothing of science or natural climate and have experienced little in the way of historical weather. Further, they are completely illiterate on the uses, functionality, essentiality, and indispensability of gas and oil. They are simply convinced or programmed by pompous academicians and the political presses that the world is actually in danger and they are the victims.
You will note that protests which involve obstruction, damage, equipment mutilation, and disorderly civil disobedience are almost always performed by the young. Those that have been brainwashed into believing they will suffer and become the eventual casualties of climate change.
The story and video are detailed in the link below.