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Friday, March 9, 2012

Modern Times in Three Cartoons



The cartoons from the current New Yorker (March 12) are simply evocative (and provocative).


This one gives me the chills, as I just deleted my Twitter account. 
Will I go the Gregor Samsa way?


And then, there is the emergence of the lobbyist as a lion that seeks
to bribe his way into the pantheon of Darwinism. But really, we all
know that Social Darwinism is a wholly engineered thingie, 
not "natural" as some would us think. If you don't believe that see
Andrew Niccol's grand movie In Time.



At least a few people showed up at the funeral of America's most
famous Salesman, Willy Loman. Nobody shows up at this one's
(except the lone figure of the wife), because in an era where 
you can mourn via the medium of technology, why bother to be
physically there at the service?

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