Usually,
doing successive posts bearing on the same, or nearly the same subject is
avoided, the two previous ones touched on how the world now works in the
literal sense, up to a point.
But
the Dilbert cartoon above, for today Sunday 13 July, fits all this so well, it
was difficult to resist using it.
The
particular matter is that without the web and the instant international contact
doing this kind of thing within the time frame would have been impossible even a decade or so ago.
Another
feature of modern life is that when our sporting persons win and bring home the
trophies our political leaders are all over them, showering honours and making
promises of funding for this and that.
When
they are not they seem to become "unpersons" in the Orwellian sense
to be shunned and forgotten as soon as possible. Given the margins between success and failure
are so fine, perhaps our leaders could have something to learn?
Notably,
pressing the "delete" button does not mean that things have been
deleted, they are still there short of total destruction.
I sometimes wonder if Dilbert cartoons are the other side of the pessimistic coin. These and other mildly subversive and cynical cartoons must be read, absorbed and inwardly digested by millions.
ReplyDeleteIn the end it may make some kind of difference. The status quo can only take so much laughter.