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Tommy Siegel | Bluesky | website
Transcript
Comic in 4 Panels:
Header: It’s That Easy!
Panel 1: The year is 1994. A dad with short black hair, in a blue shirt, red shorts, and white sneakers with calf high white socks, kneels with one arm resting on a knee and the other raised demonstratingly in front of a kid in a green ball cap, yellow shirt, blue pants, and green sneakers. There is a round metal trash can behind them.
Dad: Pick up your litter and save the Earth!
Panel 2: The year is 2004. Same dad, but in brown cargo shorts, brown shoes, and ankle high white socks speaking to the same kid. There is a green recycle bucket behind them.
Dad: Recycle and you can save the Earth!
Panel 3: The year is 2014. Same dad, but wearing a bike helmet, black athletic pants, and black sneakers to the same kid. A bike is behind them.
Dad: Reduce your carbon footprint and you can save the Earth!
Panel 4: The year is 2024. Same dad, but he’s in the same outfit from panel 1. There is a massive fire behind them.
Dad: Completely restructure global economic systems and you may be able to save a remnant of humanity!
drawing attention to that is cool, i guess, but doesn’t shed light on the underlying issue.
america loves victim blaming the individual rather than ever admitting that there’s some kind of issue with the system or wealthy people.
every single house in america could be built on the edge of a cliff prone to landslides and someone would always come out of the woodwork to act like it’s your own fault you bought it.
‘shoulda lived in a shopping cart.’
Isn’t that the whole point of the comic? None of the advice the Dad gave to the child was ever going to solve the problem. Presumably the kid tried, and the problem just kept getting more dire.
One of the many consequences of hyper individualism.