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You know, I couldn't really figure out what this comic was commenting on until now. It's rich people. The lions are rich people "educating" the masses on why they should be thankful that the lions exist.
It can be applied to any hegemonic class, really.
But yes, it's rich people. Public schools may have originally risen out of defiance of the hegemony, at least in some notably locations, but they were quickly captured by it.
Schools over a place where the rich of the past can be aggrandised, and the rich of the present can ensure the workforce gains the basic skills to keep making them money, while also hearing about how it is right, and natural, and inevitable that they get to keep the product of your labour.
A place where your movement and thought is determined by schedules down to the minute and broken up by bells is an industrialist's wet dream.
"WORK TIME IS NOW"
"REST WHEN THE BELL RINGS"
"LUNCH TODAY WILL BE SLOPPY JOES"
“I’ll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry: It’s a waste of time. Bunch of people runnin’ around bumpin’ into each other, got a guy up front says, ‘Two plus two,’ and the people in the back say, ‘Four.’ Then the bell rings and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can go take a dump or somethin’. I mean, it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but that’s my two cents on the issue.” — Rick
Yeah, he said that, but we all know he was gaslighting Jerry and Beth. I kinda assume Rick is lying whenever he says almost anything at this point.
Until you added the Rick part, I read this in Kramer's voice
Yeah, it is a really good one. But I keep seeing people not getting the metaphor behind it. So normally I'd be like, seriously dude, you had to write that out? But in this case, yes, yes you had to and thank you for that!
Yeah, I don't know why it took so long to click.
Oil companies sponsoring school science fairs
This is one of my favorite comics and I'll say something I've said before:
Even the lion who wants to start the school thinks he's helping the antelope and the other lions think he's crazy, possibly even a class traitor. He thinks he's helping, but his entire worldview is from a lion's perspective, so he's not equipped to get the antelopes to think outside of the Predator-Prey dynamic. In the real world, it's very possible for people to think that they're helping, but if they aren't prepared to question the underlying foundations of a system they're a part of, then they may never make any real changes.
Yup, just like religion teaches us that poor people go to heaven and rich fucks go to hell. So don't struggle against the latter, just do as your told and it will all work out
It's commenting on a scene in The Lion King that explains why the lion king exists, which inadequatedly made it one of the most conservative Disney cartoon ever, only rivaled by blackface and stuff like that.
Not just exist. But exist because of the masses making them that wealthy from the underpaid worker to the consumer.