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> As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable. I am so sick of the self aggrandizement across the board that see
by throw__away7391 2y ago
> As an editorial cartoonist, my job is to hold powerful people and institutions accountable.
I am so sick of the self aggrandizement across the board that seems to have become especially prominent over the past couple of years. I am certain I am not the only one. A cartoon in the Washington Post is at best preaching to the choir. Not a single "powerful person or institution" in history has ever even once been "held accountable" by a Washington Post cartoon. So, so many people have such an inflated sense of the importance of what they do, like they're on some holy crusade. I am reminded of that scene at the beginning of Silicon Valley, "I don't want to live in a world where someone else makes the world a better place", and all the cringy Steve Jobs impersonators we've all seen over the years.
In my opinion these kinds of people are exactly the reason that the same people being "held accountable" in the cartoon have managed to come to power. Because they've been putting themselves out there as unlikable self-righteous snobs for the better part of the past decade or so and a whole lot of people got sick of them and put the idiots in charge out of spite.
Also...it's a very lame cartoon. It isn't remotely funny nor creative. It's bland, innocuous commentary on the level of Banksy. Though I guess that's pretty much the status quo for political cartoons these days.
- threatofrain 2y agoWait, it's snobbish to think that a business should be more than money and power? And this snobbishness is so damaging, so awful, that in a conversation about holding power to account, we should instead be thinking about putting the snobs in their place? How dare a cartoonist think that a business should be more than an instrument of money? Like yo, I don't agree at all that news media should be held to a higher standard, absolutely not higher than Marlboro or DuPont (if they're supposed to be a wing of government then make it so!), but to think "Let's turn this conversation around. Instead of Jeff Bezos, it's time to put the magnifying glass on the snob cartoonist", I mean, okay, sure.
- clearcoat 2y agoIt really sounds like you’re part of the problem.