Counting Cats has posted a blinder :

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Quite what the mechanism is here is mysterious but then religion has to involve mysteries. In the case of real religions the mystery is pre-shipped – I have known enough cosmologists in my time (Old astrofizz saying about cosmologists – “frequently in error but never in doubt”) – to know that the “big questions” (”Why the sea is boiling hot and whether pigs have wings?”*) are essentially mysterious. I mean there is a reason why all the great religious traditions posit a God who is essentially unknowable. Religion therefore has it’s rituals – praying in the direction of Mecca, reciting “Hail Marys”, Buddhist prayer wheels etc. Green has washing trash and putting it in a box as an offering to Gaia. Or composting. It’s like “The Good Life” except in the ’70s that was a piss-take on “sustainability” yet the dream of Tom Good has come true.

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I guess what I’m saying is that if a naked chick in Florida (painted in tiger stripes) has paid for that holiday off her own bat and wants to pose before my camera lens then fine but if the council wants me to grub around like some sort of peasant and wash trash in order to feel righteous then they can fuck off.I know which I’d go for every time.

And so do you.

Do go read it all.