Re: 8 - LOL. You gotta hand it to The New Yorker. Their readership is a demographic that will be affected by such acts of violence, as energy and other commodity prices increase. They are probably higher wage earners than the population as a whole and can absorb such increases, but now they can take comfort that the magazine they love to read is now openly discussing property destruction with an author who openly advocates it. And then drive him in their Mercedes crossovers! LOL (like Mercedes but not a fan of the crossovers).
It’s about as close to civil disobedience that many readers of The New Yorker will get.