Many Americans still believe that in their society, everybody gets what they deserve – that through hard work and perservance, anyone can be rich – which is obviously not true. When falling on hard times, they would rather cast themselves in the role of oppressor than that of the oppressed.
This provides a convenient excuse for their own failure to get rich – somehow, poor people are to blame. An excuse that would not satisfy even the poorest thinker. A more advanced intellect might start looking for alternate explanations, and that would be dangerous to the Status Quo.
Lots of symbolism here – the forbidding castle, the blasted cliff wall, the enormous debris pile, the sign posted next to “POST NO BILLS” on the construction fence, the unemployment office in a tenement storefront: What exactly was being demolished (or is being built) here?
Yeah, and the difference becomes more plain every day. I live in the midst of a bunch of Southern Republicans, most of whom are hanging on to a middle class lifestyle by the skin of their credit cards. The Republicans killed the TANF Emergency Fund, voted against the bill to kill tax breaks to firms that offshore jobs, think the minimum wage is behind the recession, hate Medicare and Social Security (unless they can profit on it), are doing what they can to prevent expansion of mass transit and infrastructure spending, yet want more money to go to the military and increase tax breaks to multi-millionaires. Then they scream about the deficit. Talk about voting against your best interests….
I can almost see the unemployment office as a brick wall with windows and a door. Step through the door and you fall into a pit with no apparent way out.
Of course it’s his (the homeless man’s) fault ! He should be out working at a non-existent job, for wages that are even more illusory. Repeal the 16th Amendment, ban labour unions, and see to it that the unemployed are condemned to, say, 10 years forced labour for the rich - then the country will bloom again - as long as the rich can continue to profit from the resources devoted to the military and the continual wars of aggression abroad….
marco75 over 13 years ago
Many Americans still believe that in their society, everybody gets what they deserve – that through hard work and perservance, anyone can be rich – which is obviously not true. When falling on hard times, they would rather cast themselves in the role of oppressor than that of the oppressed.
This provides a convenient excuse for their own failure to get rich – somehow, poor people are to blame. An excuse that would not satisfy even the poorest thinker. A more advanced intellect might start looking for alternate explanations, and that would be dangerous to the Status Quo.
sirrom567 over 13 years ago
Apparently, it’s really all the fault of gigantic homeless people.
rockngolfer over 13 years ago
This may be a little off the subject but a good cartoon 10/11
http://news.yahoo.com/comics/brevity
sirrom567 over 13 years ago
Lots of symbolism here – the forbidding castle, the blasted cliff wall, the enormous debris pile, the sign posted next to “POST NO BILLS” on the construction fence, the unemployment office in a tenement storefront: What exactly was being demolished (or is being built) here?
SaltWaterCroc over 13 years ago
Yeah, and the difference becomes more plain every day. I live in the midst of a bunch of Southern Republicans, most of whom are hanging on to a middle class lifestyle by the skin of their credit cards. The Republicans killed the TANF Emergency Fund, voted against the bill to kill tax breaks to firms that offshore jobs, think the minimum wage is behind the recession, hate Medicare and Social Security (unless they can profit on it), are doing what they can to prevent expansion of mass transit and infrastructure spending, yet want more money to go to the military and increase tax breaks to multi-millionaires. Then they scream about the deficit. Talk about voting against your best interests….
mattro65 over 13 years ago
I can almost see the unemployment office as a brick wall with windows and a door. Step through the door and you fall into a pit with no apparent way out.
Jaedabee Premium Member over 13 years ago
If only that homeless person weren’t lazy, like all homeless people are.*
quickbrownfox over 13 years ago
“What exactly was being demolished (or is being built) here?”
It’s the ugly pit that disgraces downtown Eugene, OR. I met Ted here at our library last week. Looks like it was still fresh in his mind.
sirrom567 over 13 years ago
Fascinating, quickbrownfox.
(Spammer, not so much.)
Solsys2007 over 13 years ago
This is looking very much like the Wartburg castle, where Martin Luther translated the Bible.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wartburg
So it’s all the Protestants’ fault.
;) ;)
(lol , sarcasm etc.)
sirrom567 over 13 years ago
It actually looks more like this side view of Neuschwanstein:
http://www.liveindia.com/news/neuschwanstein-castle.jpg
or maybe Haut-Koenigsbourg:
http://www.theschoberts.org/gallery/ch%C3%A2teaux/haut-koenigsbourg.jpg
but it’s so generic that I’m sure I could find even closer parallels in Google Images….
mhenriday over 13 years ago
Of course it’s his (the homeless man’s) fault ! He should be out working at a non-existent job, for wages that are even more illusory. Repeal the 16th Amendment, ban labour unions, and see to it that the unemployed are condemned to, say, 10 years forced labour for the rich - then the country will bloom again - as long as the rich can continue to profit from the resources devoted to the military and the continual wars of aggression abroad….
Henri