i believe cartoons reveal a lot about an ideology. like: what a person of that ideology finds funny, what enrages em, what grosses em out. i think it’s worth studying em.
for example, wile e. coyote is clearly a stand-in for the sad-sack proletarian being bypassed by automation (roadrunner, a foul honking beast), and constantly having to buy products (acme) that leave him unfulfilled. and in this essay, i
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