We Should Improve Society Somewhat: A Collection of Comics By Matt Bors

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Composition fallacy ("criticising one aspect of government is criticising every aspect of government"), Take Greta Thunberg. The vitriol and scratching around in the soil of her past to try and find a way to undermine her message is of witch hunt proportions. Did you know her mother was a Eurovision contestant? Where does her waste go when she takes a virtue-signalling boat rather than a plane? And why isn’t she in school? Surveying our current dystopian hellscape, Matt Bors makes the bold declaration that We Should Improve Society Somewhat in this collection of comics from The Nib’s founding editor. Matt Bors have a very cutting type of humor. It is both funny and very very sad at the same time. He gets to the point of what is going on, and goes beyond. There seem to be multiple fallacies all wrapped up into one class of response there. Just on a cursory glance:

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Last year, I was on a panel on climate change, where a behavioural psychologist said the most depressing thing: most people don’t want to make small changes in their lifestyles because they think that collectively they won’t amount to much, so why bother?Single cause ("the government made these things available, therefore only the government could have made those things available"), To say it is dated is a way of saying I am a privileged little twit and I don't want to keep rehashing that a moron in office expands my already too large sense of entitlement. This stuff is still going on in mid-2020, so this isn't dated, it is pointing out from comics just a couple years old that Trump is still fooling the people and destroying the country. Oh, but it is too dated or doesn't make you laugh enough. I see. Take your hood off. I highly recommend this collection unless you prefer more base humor or you are anti-democracy (as in, you support Trumpenfuehrer). Imgflip supports all fonts installed on your device including the default Windows, Mac, and web fonts,

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Some historians argue that we must thank the Church for the bridges built in Europe during the Middle Ages. However, this is wrong: the Church built those bridges basically because they were the only ones around with power; if they hadn't done it, someone else would have done it. Some of the comics are funny, but in a large batch like this, they feel repetive, and like a joke that has outworn its welcome. Perhaps in a weekly format, during the time of the events, they were funnier, but not so much here. It also could be that I've never really been much of a fan of political humor in most forms. Your mileage may completely vary. If only the "pure" (whoever they are) had been allowed to make social and political commentary or criticism, no change would have ever taken place. And perhaps that is the point. Mr Gotcha isn’t just a depiction of annoying men (and let’s face it, they are almost always men) who want to have the last word and affect a sort of knowing cynicism and weariness with political activism because they think it makes them look cool. (It doesn’t.) There is something more sinister about it. Some dark impulse that seeks to chill any efforts to bring about change for the better, by discrediting the messenger as not pure enough to do it.So one of the gotcha claims used by folks on the right towards socialists/communists is that they live in a society where they benefit from the material living standards that have arisen through a capitalist mode of production. It is therefore seen as hypocritical to express a desire to tear down and re-arrange the system while also actively participating in it.