djsumdogI use to support Matt Boros and funded some of his books. He's really gone totally off the deep end in recent years.
This cartoon has never sat well with me. Maybe because I actually do break away from the parts of society the other panels are talking about. I removed all Google services from my phone. I've deleted all my major social networking, I run my own e-mail server, and I've written tutorials and encouragement for other people who want to do the same.
In the comic, the implication is the guy being a little annoying bitch is subject to the same issues as everyone else. He's not only okay with it, but challenges everyone else who bitches about it while not actively doing anything to fight against their complaints.
I realize not everyone else has the skills I have, but at the same time, people do like to complain while not taking any meaningful steps to get away from the part of society they are bitching about. The low fiction to become addicted to today's technocratic society means that society cannot be change by small amounts of collective financial action.
I think my issue with this comic is how fucking meaningless it is. Both sides of the argument are strawmans. The final panel is bitching abut bitching by a guy who represents no side of political faction. It's infuriating because it makes no fucking sense, and yet is constantly touted as memed as one of Boro's greatest comics: showing that the majority of his work is just shit.
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