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My honest opinion having seen a few of these extinction rebellion / insulate Britain type videos recently is that I strongly suspect a lot of these people are just bored. I don't mean they finished their latest Netflix show and couldn't find another of course... but deeper, existential boredom. Seeking meaning and excitement by scaling buildings or gluing themselves to roads "for the greater good" ... ... ... but at the end of the day, the sceptic in me suspects that "the cause" doesn't matter all that much. So long as it's "something" and they get to "do a thing".

I sympathise really, late-stage/post-capitalism chaos. I sometimes wonder if I'd be more susceptible to it if I was less busy? Will I listen to another podcast today - or will I climb a building like Spider-man and insist (to myself and observers) that I'm doing it to literally save the world? I'll never know because I have actual responsibilities instead ... but I do wonder.