The Ayatollah of Climate Change: Greta Thunberg
Hamlet thought that all occasions, that is to say events and circumstances, conspired against him. Greta Thunberg could say the opposite (if ever she stopped to think about the reasons for her astonishing ascent to fame). How all occasions conspire in her favour! She encourages people to blame nebulous others, she appeals to grievance, she is radically humourless and therefore deemed to be serious. She is therefore a heroine-if one is still permitted to use the female form of the word hero-for our times.
Of course,
the world will chew her up one day and spit her out. She is, after all, a bore,
and bores, however correct their doxa, soon lose their
attractiveness to a world eager for new phenomena. Few prodigies remain
prodigious in any way to retain the short attention span of the world. I
sincerely hope that little Greta takes her fall from fame in good part.