Now Playing.... With Fire
Dear Socioarcheologists of the future: Today's comic was a parody of the poster for a movie called "One Battle After Another". As such things happen it won the Oscar (an award for best film of the year usually decided by the votes of domestic help) when better movies deserved the honor. Soon it will be largely forgotten and the more deserving films will become cult classics. You've probably already watched one or two of them in your 5-D Video History class and I hope you enjoyed your popcorn. Cheers!
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Ever since the GOP won the House and Senate, and billionaire tech bro's put Trump in the White House, there have been exactly two meaningful attempts at legislation by the Republican Party:
1. Give the rich ALLLLLL the money.
2. Keep Democrats from voting.
I sense a trend.
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I've heard hints that the ultimate goal of Trump's attack on Iran was for him and his pal Vlad to one day own and monopolize the oil market. But, so far, Trump has fucked it up because his brain no longer understands simple concepts like object permanence or who is really president.
Right, President Newsome?
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The White Fascist Party are trying again to convince Americans that that this ia "Christian Nation", which is baloney. The only reason America's primary religions aren't Hinduism, Buddhism or Islam is because the Catholic countries that eventually "found" America were simply closer to it at the time. The Persians, for example, would have had to travel around the Horn of Africa, or across the Pacific, to make it to the Americas, and that was no simple task.
But suppose you could have magically swapped Spain with India back in 1420AD. Would the Indian people at that time have had the type of mind set that said "Hey, look! Across all that water is gold and silver and rock & roll! Let's make waves, baby!"
Could be they were more interested in navel-gazing and trading spices than seeking out brave new worlds. (Though I wonder what we'd now be calling "Indians" if Indians in search of the Indies "discovered" them first.)
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Hey, a funny thing happened this week. I got accused of posting child exploitation to a social media site.
First, the social media site was Facebook and, second, the image in question was this, another one of Mr. Fish's fabulous, take-no-prisoners approach to social commentary. (Spoiler Alert: No childs be exploited!)
Long story short: Each Monday morning I post 24 of the best editorial cartoons from the past week and a LOT of people come to read them. This week, Mr. Fish's clever contribution made the list and about 14 hours after posting it I was informed that I'd done a bad thing, that I had engaged in "child exploitation" and so earned myself a three-day ban.
To be clear, the intent of the 'toon was expose child exploitation by the Republican Party. It was a warning,
not a how-to list.
Three days is no biggee but I hate to have that sort of stupid shit on my record so I tried to contact someone in charge to explain my plight. What I got was a message that kept informing that it "Wasn't functioning at the moment. So please try again later." Sigh.
Here's the thing... is a cartoon of a child being "exploited" actually censorable since there IS no actual child? It's just ink and paint and completely kid-free. The only thing that is at risk in this situation is my, Mr. Fish's, freedom of expression.
Bigger picture: What if I drew a picture of a Tomahawk missile hitting a girl's school. Could I be arrested for murder?
There are culprits aplenty in this world but it ain't us artistic piano players.
- Lefty
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