The building was not lost, it was damaged. It is only temporarily lost and was always going to be repaired. It sucks but worse things happen everyday.
parts are gone forever though. Some artworks will never be done again.
I'm criticizing the lack of perspective and your exaggeration "loss of nd" is more evidence of that lack of perspective. I'm criticizing the worshipping of material by Christians. I understand that the loss of a symbol is considered a national tragedy and that is my point. Valuing a material symbol over the lives of hundreds of people is a disgusting choice and not a choice that even has to be made. You could value both but choose to value the building over the people and that is where I lay criticism.
Building is often more important than human life. It seems you don't understand that human life isn't precious at all. It's very cheap. Humans reproduce pretty fast and 99% of them are patheticly identical. There is nothing precious in human life.
Sometimes though, humans manage to do extraordinary things, and those things they build are precious. I would be more sad of the loss of Notre Dame or Versailles or the Schönbrunn castle than of the death of 2 millions people. Because 2 millions human life isn't worth much. 131 millions human are born every year, how can one life be precious? Humans are one of the most disposable resource we have, if not THE most disposable ressource.
No one said the loss of Notre Dame would be ok. Its a cultural loss. The connection is that it shows where your values and perspective are. As a country, you are responsible for damage to so many people's Notre Dame's and hardly bat an eye.
Because they aren't ours... You do understand that what is not yours is less important to you that what is yours no? If you want an example, you'll be pretty sad if terrorists killed your wife/husband even though as a country you have killed millions of loved ones accross the world.
You are crying about a cracked phone in a metaphorical room with people who have lost loved ones, and everything dear to them. Thats where its tone-deaf. So many people have nothing and people who took everything are devastated about damage to one building.
No, I'm crying about a cracked phone in a metaphorical room with ONLY people with badass phones, who are wealthy as fuck and lack nothing. The ones poor, dying and having lost everything are in the streets, not with us.
I'm complaining because things like "UN issues appeal for 4.4 billion in emergency funds to deal with famine" happen and are hardly a story but when the wealthiest institution in the history of the world has one building catch fire, support and donations pour in from around the world. This event is proof that society can pool their global attention onto an issue and collect resources to solve it within hours. We could do both without communism.
No we couldn't. Our whole system is based on the explotation of others. For 600 millions of people having our occidental lifestyle, we need nearly 7 billions people working more or less for us. We're blue blood in their castle while peasants die of famine in the near village. We can't just "share" and "pool our ressources". That would be the end of our society as it BASED on human explotation and violence.
Your article is dumb as hell.
Everyone is pooling on this not because it is an autority symbol, but because it's easy and non controversial. Everyone can say "oh we're so sorry, we're here to help" knowing that in worse case scenario they'll have to send 5 millions for this which is nothing. While if anyone would say that for Africa famines for example, it would be completely hypocritical as we NEED those famines. They're what allow us to control this continent and its ressources.
We will NEVER help Africa simply because the suffering of Africa is OUR happiness.
Is it too hard to understand?
No need for this virtue signaling. Your part of a horrible, inhumane system dear.
