Greta Thunberg: The Patron Saint Of Performance Art

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“Activism is a way for useless people to feel important, even if the consequences of their activism are counterproductive for those they claim to be helping and damaging to the fabric of society as a whole.” — Thomas Sowell

Once upon a time, Greta Thunberg lectured a bunch of people who think they are important at a climate conference and the world declared her the Joan of Arc of climate change.

“You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words,” she barked at a room full of people she had never met before at age 16. “How dare you?”

Self-loathing liberals loved it. A 16 year old that had likely endured little, if any, actual discomfort in her life, berating them and all but telling them they were actual pieces of shit for not acting on climate change fast enough.

Whereas I would have chuckled, grabbed another free martini, and walked out, a room full of adults instead decided to canonize a teenager as the patron saint of planetary guilt.

After all, nothing says “serious policymaking” like outsourcing your conscience to a 16-year-old with a hand-painted sign and the emotional range of an fire truck siren.

Fast forward 6 years and now Thunberg has pivoted from carbon footprints to geopolitical flashpoints, weighing in on the Israel–Palestine conflict as though taking on new causes was trying to catch every Pokemon.

For someone who once demanded we “listen to the science,” Greta seems very comfortable being a roving generalist.

Her newest chapter? A “kidnapping” by Israeli forces while...(READ THIS FULL COLUMN 100% FREE HERE).