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If someone wanted to write a parody of climate activist lunacy, he or she could do worse than construct a scenario in which a crazed defender of the planet earth disguised himself as an old lady in a wheelchair, complete with wig and lipstick, and then entered the Louvre in Paris, where, in front of shocked crowds, he jumped up and tried to smash the bulletproof glass protecting Leonardo da Vinci’s renowned Mona Lisa, finally settling for smearing the glass with cake. But the Left is beyond parody these days, as you can see from the large number of Babylon Bee stories coming true, and the cake-wielding climate activist is real: he smeared the Mona Lisa with his dessert on Sunday.
The Art Newspaper reports that the cake-smearer proclaimed: “Think of the planet… there are people who are destroying the planet, think about that … That’s why I did it.”
All right. There are people destroying the planet, so he tried to destroy the Mona Lisa, which has been called “the best known, the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about, the most parodied work of art in the world.” This man would likely recoil in horror at the prospect of cutting down a tree, but he willingly hatched and went ahead with this plot to destroy a 600-year-old work of art, one of the global masterpieces of human achievement. Human achievement, of course, means nothing to hardcore climate activists, who would happily see it all destroyed if to do so would ensure that “the planet” would be freed from the alleged depredations of the human race.
The intrepid climate warrior failed to harm the Mona Lisa; he couldn’t break the protective glass, and the cake he smeared upon it was cleaned off easily enough. But what was this individual thinking, if that word can be justly used to describe the processes of his mind? Was he enraged at Leonardo for daring to wrest paint and a white Lombardy poplar panel from the earth in order to create the painting? Was he lashing out at the Mona Lisa in a rage at all painters, in all times, who have destroyed trees and plants to burden the earth with their ridiculous scribblings, when they should have left well enough alone and let us marvel at the natural artwork of the earth instead?
Most likely, of course, he was calculating that this absurd stunt would call attention to his allegedly worthy cause, and perhaps even move some of the world’s power brokers to act for the “planet,” since, after all, one noble young man went so far as to try to destroy what is arguably the foremost artwork in the world in order to call attention to the immense plight that the poor old planet is in.
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Aloha Akbar says
Liberalism is definitely a mental disorder.
if he’s concerned about “climate change” then he needs to throw a cake at the electric oven that baked it, & at the diesel powered wheelchair accessible van that drove him there, & at the Chinese factory that manufactured his wig, & at the beauty parlour that applied his non-toxic, organic soy based, lesbian flavoured lipstick to his pock marked, glass jawed, lentil fed face.
But most of all, he needs a cake to his own head… a 22 caliber, lead cake.
gravenimage says
+1
James Lincoln says
So, according to the excellent feature article:
“Leftist Lunatic in Lipstick and Wig Smears Mona Lisa With Cake to Save the Planet”
Are there any leftists who are not lunatics?
somehistory says
Probably not…except for those like Mr. David Horowitz who got out, got out and writes about those “lunatics” who don’t. He was probably never one in reality.
James Lincoln says
somehistory,
Yes, occasionally a leftist will “get it” and leave the loony bin. I certainly applaud that.
But during the time that a person is a “practicing leftist”, they are a lunatic – hopefully only temporarily…
tim gallagher says
I’m with Robert Spencer, who tries to figure out what the connection is between the Mona Lisa and saving the planet from damage to the environment. I can’t see any connection at all. I guess it is a demented way to seek some publicity for the cause, although the Mona Lisa is a revered painting for most of the sane people of the world, so vandalising it would merely earn the loathing of most people. I certainly am appalled by this scumbag’s actions. Maybe, this maggot is just a hater of all aspects of western civilisation and so he has no respect for great western art works at all. At any rate, he has shit for brains. It is a case of a total moron attacking a great work of art.
gravenimage says
+1
tim gallagher says
Thanks for the +1, gravenimage. Yes, this makes no sense at all, although maybe it is a bit of an echo of those Dada type artists years ago. But this is the way to lose the support of people I think. These people live on another planet so they probably don’t get that most people would be disgusted at what he did. As you mention in your comment below, imagine if this person had actually greatly damaged the painting. I imagine that he would have intended to do so if he could have.
gravenimage says
I’m sure this is true, Tim. So glad the painting has security.
fifty years ago some maniac attacked Michelangelo’s Pieta with a hammer. It was painstakingly and successfully repaired.
James Lincoln says
tim gallagher says,
“At any rate, he has shit for brains.”
Yes, piled high and deep.
And the smell…
tim gallagher says
Yes, James, this action by this clown has to be one of the most idiotic ever. And it would turn almost all people off his cause because they would be disgusted by the vandalism involved.
gravenimage says
Leftist Lunatic in Lipstick and Wig Smears Mona Lisa With Cake to Save the Planet
………………..
This *does* sound like a parody–you really can’t parody this madness at this point.
So glad the attempt to destroy this masterpiece failed.
Lorensacho Byzantine says
At least he didn’t shoot anybody and later whine that they are coming for his guns.
gravenimage says
And at least Lorencsacho is just trolling here and not–so far as we know, anyway–waging violent Jihad. Yay! sarc/off
OLD GUY says
This is what happens when society fails to do anything about the lunatics allowed to breed and act out their insane ideas. We allow these insane people to live on the streets and threaten the rest of us often with violence, but you can’t infringe on their rights to total freedom no matter what they do. We used to have institutions for the mentally insane, now they run our governments.