this is perhaps the greatest flaw of HTBUAP as an ever-growing media franchise: it hawks a vision of thrilling spectacle in the name of dire urgency when the actual work required necessitates profound patience and discipline over the course of years, decades, and even lifetimes.
After I talked to my movement elder, I thought again about the people I’d seen reading Malm’s book, and suddenly it began to make sense. They were indeed people more accustomed to rallies and marches, letter-writing campaigns and street theater outside the White House, people who might be used to thanking the police. This is by design. Malm is, in fact, not talking to my grumpy mentor, to those already escalating tactics, to those who have tried it, to those who have paid the price. His audience is the mainstream environmental movement, people who have never considered sabotage, or direct action, people who are outright against it. For such an audience, Malm’s book is an important intervention.
ITS A FUCKIN MOVIE 🍿 🍿 🍿 :wall-talk:
also there are simply not lifetimes available for climate action. it will be Too Late.
I thought Pipeline was good. as the Verso book review said:
Lenin: "film is the most important art form"
Kim Jong-Il was a moviehead too.
Pretty sure :kim-drip: is too
Also :mao-clap:
Talk about missing the point!
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