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omQR, they often get the cartoons mixed up with the regions. Who knows why a Dutch cartoon is in Views Africa?
Reasons, I get where you’re coming from, but there is another way to view this. The humans sense the beauty of what the birds are doing and, rather than compete with them, they wish to participate with them, neither drowning them out nor passively consuming their song. Just a thought.
rekam: I was just asking why a Dutch cartoon is in the ViewsAfrica section.
Getting regional Views wrong is a bugbear with me and drives me (even more) batty especially when I expect to see African cartoonists represented or a view on Africa and I don’t get it.
omQ R, thanks for the explanation. I don’t understand why they get regional Views wrong either. Had commented on it quite a while back. Can’t remember which one I commented on.
Up to steam on current human evolutionary theory as they are and aware that Africa is the cradle of H sapiens sapiens, the GoComic editors are merely pointing out here that our propensity to make musical instruments and form bands is of loooong standing and that presumably the first realisations of this ability occured in Africa, whereof the relevance of this Dutch cartoon….
Well, yes, of course that is the intent of the artist (to have us interpret it as such).
What’s the fun in that?
And how boring a cartoon that says something that has been axiomatic for I don’t know how long “Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.” and the swords to plowshears wish?
Further, it goes to the very basis of human misunderstanding that we view the world differently from what it really is. (Hence we now have a plethora of morons who go to live with the bears, and with the lions, as if these creatures haven’t spent the last several millions of years not accepting alternate species into their folds. We’ll give Jane Goodall a pass given that, one, she spent years everyday just sitting outside the group, observing, and two that she’s dealing with at least a closely related species.)
Now, believe me I can wax poetic for pages about the, “That’s why we’re different from the other creatures,” poem. But that doesn’t interrupt the fact that we often confuse nature with fairy tale.
As a result, we expect that our lives are supposed to be easy.
Gary Varvel by Gary Varvel
ViewsAmerica by CartoonArts International
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dtroutma said, 2 months ago
Interesting “plowshares” conversion.
ReasonsVentriloquist said, 2 months ago
Except the birds are competing with their songs.
The Zen would be to enjoy the birds as oposed to competing with them with your song.
parkersinthehouse said, 2 months ago
trout - good one!
MurphyHerself said, 2 months ago
Wishful thinking. Mankind isn’t wired for peace, more’s the pity.
omQ R
said,
2 months ago
Maar waarom zou een Nederlands beeldverhaal in een Afrikaanse sectie zijn?
rekam
said,
about 1 month ago
omQ R, translation please. Got a little of it but not enough.
cdward said, about 1 month ago
omQR, they often get the cartoons mixed up with the regions. Who knows why a Dutch cartoon is in Views Africa?
Reasons, I get where you’re coming from, but there is another way to view this. The humans sense the beauty of what the birds are doing and, rather than compete with them, they wish to participate with them, neither drowning them out nor passively consuming their song. Just a thought.
omQ R
said,
about 1 month ago
rekam: I was just asking why a Dutch cartoon is in the ViewsAfrica section.
Getting regional Views wrong is a bugbear with me and drives me (even more) batty especially when I expect to see African cartoonists represented or a view on Africa and I don’t get it.
rekam
said,
about 1 month ago
omQ R, thanks for the explanation. I don’t understand why they get regional Views wrong either. Had commented on it quite a while back. Can’t remember which one I commented on.
M Henri Day said, about 1 month ago
Up to steam on current human evolutionary theory as they are and aware that Africa is the cradle of H sapiens sapiens, the GoComic editors are merely pointing out here that our propensity to make musical instruments and form bands is of loooong standing and that presumably the first realisations of this ability occured in Africa, whereof the relevance of this Dutch cartoon….
Henri
omQ R
said,
about 1 month ago
^ Aha, thanks M Henri, then it makes perfect sense and I wasn’t justified in questioning their geographical knowledge, this time. ;-)
ReasonsVentriloquist said, about 1 month ago
CDward,
Well, yes, of course that is the intent of the artist (to have us interpret it as such).
What’s the fun in that?
And how boring a cartoon that says something that has been axiomatic for I don’t know how long “Music hath charms to soothe the savage beast.” and the swords to plowshears wish?
Further, it goes to the very basis of human misunderstanding that we view the world differently from what it really is. (Hence we now have a plethora of morons who go to live with the bears, and with the lions, as if these creatures haven’t spent the last several millions of years not accepting alternate species into their folds. We’ll give Jane Goodall a pass given that, one, she spent years everyday just sitting outside the group, observing, and two that she’s dealing with at least a closely related species.)
Now, believe me I can wax poetic for pages about the, “That’s why we’re different from the other creatures,” poem. But that doesn’t interrupt the fact that we often confuse nature with fairy tale.
As a result, we expect that our lives are supposed to be easy.