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△ 289｜ Whose merit is destroyed by throwing dung on a god statue?
Few people should have noticed that in February of this year, a new environmental protection organization was born. But it’s been getting a lot of attention recently, because the organization sent two environmentalists to the National Gallery to splash canned tomatoes on Van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers” (of course, the painting itself is covered in glass). , so it was not itself damaged in this event).
Previously, this organization also blocked roads and blocked vehicles; blocked gas stations and prevented private cars from going to gas stations; disrupted order at the 75th British Academy Film Awards; during the Premier League game, an environmentalist broke into the stadium to He chained himself to the goal post in protest. At this point, in fact, many people do not understand, what exactly is this so-called radical environmental protection organization resisting? The sheer number of aspects they resist, the sheer number of projects, and even the destruction of priceless works of art kept in museums.
This environmental group is called “Just Stop Oil”, an activist environmental group calling for a global stop to oil extraction and use with orange as the main color. The reason why the content they are resisting is so complicated is because the products that can be obtained through oil are related to almost all aspects of human beings’ clothing, food, housing and transportation, chemical fiber clothes, chemical fertilizers, pesticides, medicines, cleaning cosmetics, and energy to maintain human transportation. and many more.
Ironically, the young man who threw a can of tomatoes on a Van Gogh painting, with the orange clothes on her body, her hair dyed, and the can of tomatoes in her hand that represents the protest, not to mention the bags on them, and the completion of the so-called protest After the event, the live pictures were taken with mobile phones and posted to social networks. These links are closely related to oil.
Generally speaking, it can be seen that all “protests” focus on two directions: one is “who gave money” and the other is “who benefits”. It is not difficult to find the original source of funding for foreign protest organizations. If you check the news related to “Just Stop Oil”, you will find “Just Stop Oil’s primary source of funding was the American-based Climate Emergency Fund.” This What exactly is the “Climate Emergency Fund” is actually quite interesting.
Like the oil protest group, this fund has not been established for a long time. It was only established in 2019. Their slogan is “Gradualism Has Failed. But Activism Works.” Gradualism has failed, but activism is still feasible. So you can see that the environmental projects supported by this fund are generally “activism”, such as “Extinction Rebellion DC”, which aims to force the government to take action through non-violent civil disobedience to prevent the climate system from crossing the threshold points, loss of biodiversity and the risk of social and ecological collapse; and Climate Emergency Advocates, an environmental group aimed at creating a “petroleum-free world”.
We do not discuss right or wrong on the “issues” they support and protest. Oil itself is an energy resource that is being consumed. Before it is consumed, if the human world has not yet perished, “new energy” must also be submitted onto the agenda. Therefore, replacing oil is an inevitable issue, but it is not an issue that can be solved immediately. What I want to discuss at this moment is to discuss the topic of stopping the transformation of petroleum energy under the precondition that the human world still needs to rely on oil as a foundation. Isn’t it time? Or maybe it really needs to start being able to start a prairie fire?
Many years ago, there was a nationwide boycott of Carrefour supermarkets in China. I believe that no one can say why people boycotted Carrefour supermarkets at that time. Because a week after the boycott, Carrefour launched a promotion, attracting those who boycotted back by giving away eggs. The Lotte supermarket in South Korea is one of the few “protests successful”, at least many Lotte supermarkets were forced to close their doors – but the problem is that those Chinese who originally worked in Lotte to support their families also lost their jobs. Of course, at that time, someone stood up and raised their arms and shouted that before the national interests were a big deal, my work and my family were not worthy of being regarded as a “tragedy” compared with the national interests.
There are many such absurdities in the age of the end of the law.
A Taoist priest went down the mountain to preach before, and when he returned to the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain, the Taoist temple he was in was not only rectified into a temple, but the Taoist temple that originally belonged to his practice place became a tourist attraction that required tickets to enter the venue. The Taoist priest took the ticket and recorded a short video with his mobile phone in front of the temple and yelled: Fuck, fuck, I have to buy a ticket when I go back to my Taoist temple, and it was turned into a temple! Some people criticize this Taoist priest for his vulgar words, but I think he scolded him right-but aside from scolding, you can’t imagine what kind of change he can make for the absurdity of this Dharma-ending age.
When I was a child, I heard two anecdotes that I now find unexpectedly very similar to the irony of the group of canned tomatoes thrown at Van Gogh’s paintings.
One is in the late Ming Dynasty, when the Qing army invaded the Ming Dynasty. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was still in the final struggle. When Wang Chongyang founded Taoism, he always told his disciples to think about the people of the world in troubled times. So at that time, the Daoist temples in Fuqiu Mountain were said to have dispatched thousands of Daoists down the mountain to save the world. In the end, the Ming Dynasty ended at the tree with the crooked neck hanged by Emperor Chongzhen. Few of these Taoist priests survived. After many years, the few survivors returned to Fuqiu Mountain and unexpectedly found that many Taoist temples had been converted into temples. …
During the Cultural Revolution, crowds of people who were worn out with long sticks, sledgehammers and dung buckets would tear down temples and smash statues when they saw them. The common people would obstruct it at first. Although the temples in some villages are dilapidated, they are dedicated to the land gods or mountain gods in this area. But this group of revolutionaries on top of the radicalism ignored it, and the common people cried out: You are going to damage your merits by this attack! The person holding the dung bucket responded with a sneer: I didn’t worship it, and it wasn’t my merit that was destroyed, but the merit of you worshippers. After saying that, he picked up the dung bucket and splashed it at the statue…
A few days ago, there was a piece of news that was not allowed to be mentioned and disappeared. Some people said that the timing of his appearance was just right, but others said that his appearance was unhelpful. Everyone knows the truth of “the embankment of a thousand miles collapses in the ant’s nest”, but no one will really squat there and observe how the ants destroy the embankment of a thousand miles step by step. Because time will give people the answer, this is a “fact” that no one in power can revise history.
Therefore, their voices should be remembered by history, whether it is the person who threw canned tomatoes on the artwork, or the person who threw big dung on the statue – what kind of result did they lead to, was the embankment of a thousand miles knocked down? Or was a boulder broken through? What we saw and heard, we thought it was the first drop of water that fell on a boulder, and it didn’t change anything, but it would one day be the last drop.
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