Spookdaddy
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When I was working in Edinburgh in November I noticed a lot of what looked like relatively new graffiti consisting of the two words 'Question Evolution'. This seemed to be quite common around the George Street/Princes Street New Town area - and although I didn't make a note, I reckon I saw it plastered in ten to twelve separate locations, including - but not limited to - most of the phone boxes and some shop doorways.
Now, clearly the sentiment is not a new one, and it's possible it might be the extra curricular activity of one individual with a idée fixe - but, given the timing, and the way the anti-vax movement seems to have become an umbrella for all kinds of what I think of as Post Millennium Contrarianism, I'm just wondering if there might be a connection. (Although very different in substance, the anti-vax movement reminds me in some ways of the Countryside Alliance, which became a sloppy mix of all kinds of disparate and barely connected interests - some, in this latter's case, clearly in direct conflict with others).
So, I wonder if anyone has noticed a surge in such graffiti in other areas of the UK, or abroad? And am I right in suspecting that the anti-vaxxers are acting as both camouflage and catalyst for a whole range of other interests - some of which we may see surge once the fire goes out of the pandemic. Is this maybe an early probing attack in the next instalment of the PMC? We've got the anti-vax movement - but the pandemic isn't going to last forever; 9-11's just a bit passé these days; flat earthery has lost its wind - and no-ones quite sure how serious some of those guys are anyway. Is it time for creationism to go full mainstream?
Now, clearly the sentiment is not a new one, and it's possible it might be the extra curricular activity of one individual with a idée fixe - but, given the timing, and the way the anti-vax movement seems to have become an umbrella for all kinds of what I think of as Post Millennium Contrarianism, I'm just wondering if there might be a connection. (Although very different in substance, the anti-vax movement reminds me in some ways of the Countryside Alliance, which became a sloppy mix of all kinds of disparate and barely connected interests - some, in this latter's case, clearly in direct conflict with others).
So, I wonder if anyone has noticed a surge in such graffiti in other areas of the UK, or abroad? And am I right in suspecting that the anti-vaxxers are acting as both camouflage and catalyst for a whole range of other interests - some of which we may see surge once the fire goes out of the pandemic. Is this maybe an early probing attack in the next instalment of the PMC? We've got the anti-vax movement - but the pandemic isn't going to last forever; 9-11's just a bit passé these days; flat earthery has lost its wind - and no-ones quite sure how serious some of those guys are anyway. Is it time for creationism to go full mainstream?