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The Past and the Future
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Artist: stevesack.substack.com
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this post was submitted on 11 Apr 2026
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Isn't juxtaposing the future of energy with an unfeeling killbot against the past with a tinman – whose presence in popular culture is one of a loving, brave, kind-hearted man who thought he had no heart when he really had one all along and followed the yellow-brick road that he's rejecting but the killbot is taking – kind of weird symbolism?
I agree with the overall message; the imagery just seems kind of funny. (Also, did the artist need to pull a Ben Garrison and label the seeping barrel of oil "Fossil Fuels"?)
Yeah, the symbolism is shoehorned, and the hills of green behind them should be a smoking ruin with the wailing & dying droves as far as the eye can see, ngl. 🥲
(Not to greenwash China, but Carlin didn't do a song for them.)
If you "don't mean to" do a thing, don't "apologize" beforehand and do it anyway, Jessica.
Carlin didn't "do a song" for China for any number of reasons, and this sloppy aside seems to imply that he wouldn't have bcz their gov't's so idyllic. Ick. 🤮🤌🏼