Comment: Spending money on fireworks when everything seems to be on fire is kind of obscene - or is it? Alone among my friends, I find myself torn about this question.
As smoke from bushfires chokes Sydney, it is hard not to feel a sense of helplessness and impotent rage at the lack of political leadership on climate policy, and the refusal of those in power to do what is necessary to slow global warming. What can we do? What tangible difference can we make?
It is kind of obscene to be spending money on fireworks when everything seems to be literally on fire.Yes, the fireworks are expensive and the fire service is underfunded. It is kind of obscene to be spending money on fireworks when everything seems to be literally on fire. It does seem a bit like a denial of the tragic events of the past several weeks.
The wealthy suburb of Balmain is in some ways the opposite of a utopian communal paradise of equality, but it is still somewhere you can go to see the fireworks for free. The fireworks are a public celebration, not quite freely and equally accessible to all Sydneysiders, but a public event all the same. Why cancel this event and not other actions and inactions by the government that are equally if not more obscene? Demand an end to coal subsidies, for instance. Stop funding private schools.
Could there be a form of protest firework that would satisfy my own particular brand of anti-authoritarian pyromania?
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