just seen someone criticize the divine comedy by saying that it’s not relatable which is of course incommensurably stupid because relatability should never be the only criterion through which one can judge the validity and quality of a piece of work &c but also. just because you tedious unimaginative losers have never been on a journey to hell and purgatory with your long dead favorite writer doesn’t mean others haven’t. happened to me
I am super against light pollution, and have been for decades
but I am also super annoyed by the way it’s framed as “without light pollution you can see how beautiful the night sky is” way more prominently than it’s framed as “hey, did you ever stop to think of how much energy/resources/money are literally wasted by having so much light shine up into the sky?”
so people get the idea that light pollution can only be remedied by eliminating all night-time light, which would make being outside at night very inconvenient, instead of by making night-time light shine only on the ground where, y'know, the people who need it are
The mildest example of what OP’s talking about in Dunedin, Aotearoa:
This is just with the streetlamp equivalent of using lampshades. Imagine what truly directional city lights could achieve?
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do i think going for a walk in a cemetery that’s open to the public 24/7 with a footpath and garden and everything is fucked up and immoral? no??? what the fuck???????????
i think it’s fucked up that we’ve made death, an inevitable thing that happens to everyone, into such a taboo subject that enjoying spending time in places where dead people exist is offensive and sinister to you
friendly reminder that 19th-century and later garden/rural/landscaped cemeteries literally exist for the living to walk around in, picnic in, and generally enjoy. like. it was a cornerstone of the movement
and even before then, hanging out in cemeteries has been common in many cultures for centuries. if a burial site is beautiful and visible to the public, that could hardly be for the deceased’s enjoyment, could it?
