I checked out this guy's other work. He's a bit of a far-leftist propagandist. I wonder if he thinks this way about fringe leftist ideas that have infiltrated "mainstream thought"? I assume that the fringe ideas that shape his ideology are just obvious and true ones... to him at any rate.
I honestly don't think he knows what he's doing here. All you have to do is give this 3 seconds of thought and you'll realize how utterly dumb this concept is. Perhaps it's merely an attempt to riff off Trudeau's "fringe minority" comment, but if he'd give it 3 more seconds of thought about what this drawing implies...
Well, maybe he's not capable? I can only imagine the great proportion of readers nodding along, too.
I have limited drawing skills but am considering a rebuttal.
It looks a lot like R Crumb in style. BUT as someone who loves and respects real science, that an idea from a fringe is equated with f'ing pollution, is creepy-level fascist propaganda in and of itself.
Real scientific breakthroughs have generally come from way outside mainstream ideas. Remember when plate tectonics was a new theory? I do, and most scientists rejected it outright. Then is was not rejected.
I also remember when the KP boundary in geology was pointed to as possible enormous meteorite impact fallout, an impact so large that it may have killed the dinosaurs. That was considered poppycock too, until they found the crater at Chicxulub, in Mexico.
When art promotes mocking and suppression freedom of thought, and likely speech, I am offended.
Also not to mention art as a "fringe" activity (because it of necessity access the hidden and secret and unspoken realms)... This guy's smoked too much propaganda and wants everyone else to smoke it too.
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Date: 2022-02-05 12:11 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2022-02-05 05:30 pm (UTC)Well, maybe he's not capable? I can only imagine the great proportion of readers nodding along, too.
I have limited drawing skills but am considering a rebuttal.
Wow
Date: 2022-02-06 04:55 pm (UTC)R Crumb?
Date: 2022-02-07 07:05 pm (UTC)Real scientific breakthroughs have generally come from way outside mainstream ideas. Remember when plate tectonics was a new theory? I do, and most scientists rejected it outright. Then is was not rejected.
I also remember when the KP boundary in geology was pointed to as possible enormous meteorite impact fallout, an impact so large that it may have killed the dinosaurs. That was considered poppycock too, until they found the crater at Chicxulub, in Mexico.
When art promotes mocking and suppression freedom of thought, and likely speech, I am offended.
Re: R Crumb?
Date: 2022-02-07 11:21 pm (UTC)