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==Explanation== | ==Explanation== | ||
+ | {{incomplete| Made by a CULTURE PRETENDING BAD THINGS ARE GOOD. Do NOT delete this tag too soon.}} | ||
+ | This comic portrays a discussion that is so generic it has become independent of the issue being discussed. | ||
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Things are not good, and are going to be bad soon. The only way for things to not be bad is for someone to do something about it. [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are presenting these things to [[White Hat]], evidently hoping to encourage him to do something about things, but he instead chooses to wait for things to become bad, to which Megan replies that the conversation itself indicates they have become bad. | Things are not good, and are going to be bad soon. The only way for things to not be bad is for someone to do something about it. [[Megan]] and [[Cueball]] are presenting these things to [[White Hat]], evidently hoping to encourage him to do something about things, but he instead chooses to wait for things to become bad, to which Megan replies that the conversation itself indicates they have become bad. | ||
− | + | What things? At the moment of release, an obvious possible thing on its way to becoming bad could be the number of cases of infection in the outbreak of {{w|COVID-19}}, which soon after the release was declared a pandemic as no one did enough to begin with. There were a [[:Category:COVID-19|series of comics]] about COVID-19, including the three comics immediately before and the four immediately after this one. The graph shows a steadily rising line, but with a slight zigzag in it, which could be an intentional similarity to the {{w|Keeling Curve}}. | |
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− | + | But in general it could be any number of things, because, as the title text remarks, this is true of "like half of" any things considered. While a precise 50% of ''all'' things may not be getting bad (or good), in a more general sense all line graphs would trend (at least slightly) either up or down. This binary 'either good or bad' finding may lead one to conclude that "like half" of all graphs show something getting bad (or else good). If not everyone agrees on what is "good" or "bad" on some issue, that same issue might even be viewed as going either from good to bad or from bad to good, providing two different graphs for each such issue with 50% of them broadly matching the comic. | |
− | + | Like in the first of the COVID-19 comics, [[2275: Coronavirus Name]], this comic may be a comment on the numerous world catastrophes that get sidelined until the very last moment, such as invading giant spiders, water quality, road systems, rising extremism and wars between groups with similar needs, lack of responsible oversight in majorly impactful international decisions, corruption and lack of trust for those with power, or climate change and related extinction of many species and cultures. Given Megan and Cueball's reaction to White Hat's failure to act, this "sidelining" or failure to take action may be the subject of their graph. | |
− | + | From Megan's final remark, "Based on this conversation, it already has [become bad]", the graph could also be describing the trend of discussions becoming so generic that they no longer depend on the content of the topic supposedly being discussed. However one interprets Megan's final remark, it is an instance of [[:Category:Recursion|recursion]]. | |
==Transcript== | ==Transcript== |