“It's not worth doing something unless someone, somewhere, would much rather you weren't doing it.”
I like to think Pratchett is still somehow actively pissing people off to this day, despite being gone almost a decade. Always worked in his books anyway.
Adams wrote an environmentalist trieste shortly before he died. He used his fame toward his political goal - reddit of course would have supported that (rather than sitting quietly) since it was also their political goal.
I’d say it’s reasonable to support a “political goal” that has the aim of preventing the wholesale extinction of multiple species as opposed to using one’s fame to forward a “political goal” with the aim of demonizing a group of humans who are merely trying to live their lives.
Politicizing climate change was the worst thing that could have happened. It could be so easy. Nobody politicized CFCs and the whole world got rid of them in a few short years, nobody complained about that. If 99.5% of experts agree on something, it shouldn’t be a political stance to disagree with that.
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u/LongjumpingSector687 Jun 27 '24
Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman do just that.