Thanks to Mr Eugenides, this little comment from a wankstain who can’t even decide on a proper name for himself:
At the launch at the Tate Modern last night, the artist Bob and Roberta Smith suggested that people who own a 4×4 should spend a “night in the cells”.
What an arrogant, moralising little shit. How dare he presume to lecture others about how they live and to impose his own warped morality on them. Constantly Furious, take note, please. The idiotically monikered Bob and Roberta Smith wants to lock you up because of your eeeeevil car.
Still, Brendan Lewis who wrote the article Mr E quotes seems to agree when it comes to pretentious, moralising, self-satisfied puritans.
No wonder “ordinary people” aren’t enthusiastically signing up to the environmentalist ethos. They know it simply doesn’t make sense to say that we face an enviro-holocaust and then to claim we can prevent it by not taking a cheap flight to Majorca. Yesterday Ian Katz said that only “a small, saintly portion of the population” is taking climate change seriously; that is because the larger, presumably un-saintly portion of the population instinctively recognises that changing their lightbulbs will not prevent the alleged End of Days.
Or this on the pietistic bollocks from Franny Armstrong:
Franny Armstrong flatteringly compares the 10:10 campaign to the Suffragette movement. Yet Sylvia Pankhurst said: “Socialism means plenty for all. We do not preach a gospel of want and scarcity, but of abundance … We do not call for limitation of births, for penurious thrift, and self-denial. We call for a great production that will supply all, and more than all the people can consume.” The 10:10 campaign, I’m afraid, is the very opposite of that.
Quite.
Well, not too much to add to that, Longrider.
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“Franny Armstrong flatteringly compares the 10:10 campaign to the Suffragette movement.”
I’ll chip in for her fare and entrance to Epsom Downs.
Bit of a typo in that Pankhurst statement – should read “Socialism means penury for all”
Socialism was a stupid idea back in the early 1900’s, still just as stupid in the early 2000’s. Based on a terminally flawed premise, rather like the 10:10 campaign.
To be fair to early socialists, they believed they were changing things for the better. We have the benefit of hindsight that they did not.