This comic really irks me for some reason

[MammothBlade]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/cartoon/2012/jul/20/cartoonist-worldview-stephen-collins?intcmp=122#zoomed-picture

The guy sounds as if he's wrapped up in his own little bubble. Whatever happened to listening to the opinions of different people and not just your social circle? It sounds awfully self-absorbed.

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Spoiler: Comic in question

 

[Nantucket_v1legacy]

Meh boring.
I like the guy who does the political cartoons with David Condom and George BDSM Osborne.

 

[Jonluw]

Uhh... From where I'm sitting, that appears to be the point of the comic... It's social commentary.

 

[Hero in a half shell]

Yeah, I think you missed the point there. The comic is calling out the way we use social media to only reinforce our own viewpoints by only looking at the articles/watching the videos/talking with people that share our own exact viewpoints. As the comic says, we use technology to fit our lives (and the world) around ourselves, not to broaden our minds and challenge our worldview.
For the example used in the comics, the situation in Syria is a right mess. The government is slaughtering its people, and what do we do? Like a Youtube video, or vote in a meaningless online poll, and that's our good deed done for the day. We don't take action, we don't try to help, technology has opened up the world to us, and all we want to do is use it to help ourselves.

 

[Pinkamena]

As it has been stated, this is not a comic that's supposed to be funny, it's a critique of our modern, digitalized lifestyle where everything is served to us in bite-sized portions, we only see what we are familiar with, and how apathetic we are when it comes to dealing with large problems. It's actually really descriptive of the modern man. Living in his own little bubble of what he likes and is familiar with, keeping everything else outside.

 

[MammothBlade]

Yeah, I think you missed the point there. The comic is calling out the way we use social media to only reinforce our own viewpoints by only looking at the articles/watching the videos/talking with people that share our own exact viewpoints. As the comic says, we use technology to fit our lives (and the world) around ourselves, not to broaden our minds and challenge our worldview.
For the example used in the comics, the situation in Syria is a right mess. The government is slaughtering its people, and what do we do? Like a Youtube video, or vote in a meaningless online poll, and that's our good deed done for the day. We don't take action, we don't try to help, technology has opened up the world to us, and all we want to do is use it to help ourselves.

I got the point of it, but ended up missing the tone of the comic as social commentary. I strongly disdain the virtual bubble lifestyle perpetuated by social networking.

 

[Baron von Blitztank]

Boring!
Too much boring talky bits, not enough Deadpool

Spoiler: CHIMICHANGAS!

 

[MammothBlade]

I got the point of it, but ended up missing the tone of the comic as social commentary. I strongly disdain the virtual bubble lifestyle perpetuated by social networking.

I think you have to take it in context of it being a cartoon in the Guardian, a broadsheet-style newspaper (even if it is printed in the Berliner format). Broadsheet cartoons that aren't part of a discrete series are usually designed as social commentary. It was pretty clear to me what the cartoon signified at first glance - probably because I read broadsheets and political magazines frequently enough to know their modi operandi.

As do I, I read mostly broadsheets when it comes to news - yet I'm occassionally taken off-guard by the odd comic. I don't necessarily agree with the Guardian on a lot of issues, it's just a counterbalance to the Telegraph. You can usually get a good idea of what's going on by comparing what the Telegraph and Guardian are saying about the same topic.