by framersqool:
Thunberg, wind farm protesters block Norwegian ministries
OSLO, Feb 28 (Reuters) - Indigenous and environmental activists, including Greta Thunberg, blocked access to several Norwegian ministries on Tuesday, expanding a protest to demand the removal of wind turbines from reindeer pastures.
[and the month before that.....]
Davos 2023: 'Keep it in the ground' Greta Thunberg tells protest at end of WEF
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan 20 (Reuters) The protesters chanted "What do we want? Climate justice. When do we want it? Now" and "Fossil fuels have got to go", while Thunberg held up a sign saying "Keep it in the ground".
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Now, admittedly, there are probably few softer targets for lampoonery and ridicule than Greta Thunberg.
But to what end?
Instead, in a spirit of thinking things through (!), it occurs to me that this seeming hypocrisy or duplicity on the young lady's part, from one protest theme to quite literally the next, might serve to illustrate (even if doubtfully to Greta herself, nor her sycophantic flock of garment-touchers) how Greta Thunberg is as human, and therefore as full of contradictory and conflicted moral dictates, as the rest of us.
I tend to work with clues that may not necessarily be presented to me as evidence of anything, and work them into hypotheses to see how they check out.
As such, for as little as I concern myself with the overlit antics of an attention-besotted post-adolescent on a world tour, I do recall how it has often been asserted by her critics that she is autistic, or 'on the spectrum', whatever that might mean this week in the head-shrinker racket. One can definitely look at her expression in photos, the only one she seems capable of, and see not so much someone who is 'not all there' as someone who is more like all there, but having come from somewhere else entirely to get there.
I recall the scene in 'Rain Man' when a skeptical Tom Cruise finally takes his brother to a local psychologist as they make their way across the country, to see if he can explain what his brother's mental state was all about. One illustration the doc provided was first to ask Raymond how much a pair of socks cost, and Raymond knew the precise figure, plus tax, as of the last time he'd gone to Kmart; then he asked him how much a plane ticket, or a new car, or a vacation to Europe, might cost, and to each Raymond replied without hesitating, 'about a hundred dollars.' The former was something he found relevant to his own worldview and thus required precise knowledge, the latter items not so much.
Another clue (bear with me) is how in an icon for a documentary about the Sami peoples of northern Scandinavia which I noticed on a movie site I use, there is a photo of a young Sami woman who is not Greta Thunberg, who looks so much like her they may as well be identical twins.
Which got me thinking that maybe Greta, who is from Scandinavia, might actually be of Sami origins, and thus maybe for the first time in her short career as a world-saver, suddenly confronted with an issue she is directly invested in, on a basis of who she is and where she comes from, and not just the headline-grabbing mythology of a global thermostat which she has no real stake in. And she finds herself, after years of demanding that the world erect more wind turbines while we still can, suddenly going all NIMBY about the equation of wind turbines on her own people's traditional lands.
Autism does not make anyone stupid, or ignorant. Quite the contrary, even. As someone who has suspected I may myself bear some of the symptoms of such a mental arrangement, it seems that so much information comes in and makes such a dreadfully undeniable kind of sense, that one has little patience for those who cannot see what we see so clearly, which goes far in explaining what (always) looks like a supercilious smirk on her face. It may bespeak more of a resignation, to the knowledge that 'you wouldn't understand even if I explain it to you.'
I can imagine her head is full of precise figures, like output rates of oil refineries and pipelines, or ratios of various gases at various levels of the atmosphere, but ask her how much global warming will be affected by taking down wind turbines on her people's reindeer ranges, and it's 'about a hundred dollars.'
Which argues strongly in favor of not attaching oneself to messianic personality cults, or even being complicit in cultivating them, within the minds of individuals who are vulnerable to being messianized, such as adolescents with mental disorders.
It turns out they (we) are as human and complicated as anyone else, and no more capable of dispensing final wisdom, or demanding absolute loyalty to trendy political postures, than anyone else.
I think she might just want, like any other young girl, for people to like her, and has found a way even with such a challenging lack of social interactive skill as she obviously has to live with. But for once I think she may actually be leading from the heart and speaking true convictions, and I suspect it will mark the beginning of the end of her messianic cult: Her Eminence The High Priestess, it turns out, is just a girl, whose feelings, like any other girl (!), don't always add up to anything close to indisputable logic.
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