Indeed, imagine if Iran blew up a bridge in California, Paris, London — just one bridge, and the world would rightly erupt.
Yet in the Middle East, it’s bridge after bridge, hospital after hospital, school after school — bombed, erased, normalized and celebrated. Who will hold the powerful accountable?
The Amazon rainforest is often referred to as the lungs of the earth thanks to how much oxygen it produces. So please don’t let images like this let you forget that we have already destroyed about 20% of this beautiful forest and those who profit from it are pushing to destroy more.
Because nobody wants to pay for it anymore.
Michelangelo was paid today's equivalent of roughly $650,000 – $750,000 USD for the Sistine Chapel ceiling, which took over 4 years to complete.
Leonardo da Vinci was paid today's equivalent of $110,000–$120,000 USD per year and given housing and full funding by the Duke to paint The Last Supper.
To bring back the beauty and intricacies of art, our society needs to see the value in it and be ready to pay for it. Art is not dead.
Anytime you see something like this. Just know the answer is Republicans. They hate kids and they hate happiness. They want to drink their beer and fuck their trucks.