26 Reviews
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- otisagabey rated 2 months agocomics, democracy, racism, meritocracy, allodoxia
- Alright, so far, judging by the comments, people got the obvious irony of owning such a t-shirt. kudos to you guys, you have some idea about the problem of ownership and its implications.
I'd like to focus on a different part: idiots. Unfortunately, this is where people tend to agree, idiots exist, and they're always outside of the self. The self can do idiotic things, but is not The Idiot from whom all idiotic things come about. If you haven't noticed thus far, this conception of the world through the self-first-only, idiots-last-omni is the core of the individualist discourse, who is somehow shared by the idiots and the individual, only with notable aesthetic differences, graphically manifest on the tshirt of the hipster girl.
Obvious irony, if still transparent to you, has to do with regarding the lack of acquired knowledge as idiocy. Idiot's may have trouble acquiring such and such knowledge which may make them look or act smart, but, that's about where the scope of idiot begins and ends. So the problem hardly is 'being' the idiot, but acquiring and projecting the idea, the doxa of and about idiocy.
This has all kinds of essentialist implications, along with positivist-modernist one, where intelligence has been considered as something measurable, and therefore exists. So add this to the list of irony, a black, or colored girl, buys into the same vulgar positivist-modernist scheme, which claimed to measure the degree of belonging to a race, and deducted that scientifically the races exist, ergo, the racism. Now she buys into, yet another power technology in the service of meritocracy and the 'justifiable right to rule', phenomenon all pointing to a certain demographic majority of white upper class Christian male, and owns the thing that owns herself in return: a tshirt with a pie chart.
If this isn't allodoxia, I don't know what is.
- Tobb rated 2 months agocomics
- It seems for the most part, the webcomic phenomenon has been hit and miss. Either people get it, laugh, and move on, or it goes completely over their heads and they hold the artist in contempt. Or... the strip causes the individual to go into a nosedive on how massively moronic and blatantly incorrect the artist is on all aspects of existence.
 TheHorde rated 2 months ago- that was completely humorless
 ebear313 rated 2 months agocomics - funny, but very wordy.
a nice variation.
- ryan-rules77 rated 3 months ago
- wall of text, run on sentences, no humor. blah
- venadokaiosama rated 3 months agocomics
- At first u might be like: tl;dr. But read it...it's kinda cool actually. Nice drawings btw.
- mrsitar rated 3 months agocomics
- Point seen.
- mehdi rated 3 months ago
- I got the idea : "I have no choice to wear this t-shirt because bla bla bla, but I still can confirm you are an idiot because bla bla bla ...." then "how did you know ?".
LAME.
- GudSkit rated 3 months agowe-are, overanalyzing-stupid-webcomics
- I think the "zing" is that the self-insert character doesn't want to be wearing that shirt -- despite the fact that, you know, she owns it and all.
At any rate, Darwin would like to have a word with you.
- cam1lo rated 3 months ago
- Either I read a book or I read a webcomic. I dont want to read a webcomic packed with tons of text.
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