• TheTechnician27@lemmy.world
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    21 days ago

    Isn’t juxtaposing the future of energy with an unfeeling killbot against the past with a tinman – whose presence in popular culture is one of a loving, brave, kind-hearted man who thought he had no heart when he really had one all along and followed the yellow-brick road that he’s rejecting but the killbot is taking – kind of weird symbolism?

    I agree with the overall message; the imagery just seems kind of funny. (Also, did the artist need to pull a Ben Garrison and label the seeping barrel of oil “Fossil Fuels”?)

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      21 days ago

      Yeah, the symbolism is shoehorned, and the hills of green behind them should be a smoking ruin with the wailing & dying droves as far as the eye can see, ngl. 🥲

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        21 days ago

        O beautiful for smoggy skies
        Insecticided grain
        For strip-mined mountain’s majesty
        Above the asphalt plain!

        America! America!
        Man sheds his waste on thee
        And hides the pines with billboard signs
        From sea to oily sea!

        (Not to greenwash China, but Carlin didn’t do a song for them.)

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          21 days ago

          If you “don’t mean to” do a thing, don’t “apologize” beforehand and do it anyway, Jessica.

          Carlin didn’t “do a song” for China for any number of reasons, and this sloppy aside seems to imply that he wouldn’t have bcz their gov’t’s so idyllic. Ick. 🤮🤌🏼