> I read that as the well known fact that if you are constantly under pressure you will eventually just normalize it and soon it becomes "the way things are". And when things are "the way things are" there is no real push for change.
This is partly why people have taken to action like throwing paint at art and gluing themselves to roadways. Some people are not prepared to accept the normalization of human extinction and want to constantly provide new alarm stimuli.
Destroying something beautiful creates a strong emotional response.
There is a beautiful analogy with what some protestors are doing and what we are doing to the planet we inhabit.
The latter should trigger an equally strong response but somehow we lay dormant.
Irrespective of how useless you feel their protest is, they are indeed making us talk about it. Which I think is a dire need we have at the moment with so many other trivial things stealing the spotlight of media focus.
A strong emotional response can go either in the direction you want, or the opposite direction just to spite you. I feel such protestors are doing a disservice to their cause by expressing themselves in such ways.
This is partly why people have taken to action like throwing paint at art and gluing themselves to roadways. Some people are not prepared to accept the normalization of human extinction and want to constantly provide new alarm stimuli.