This one is clearly a critique of capitalism and how it uses cute mascots to help disarm children against any resistance they might have against consumerism.

You’re either with the arch capitalists and their culture of excess consumption, or against them standing with Cthullhu.

Which side are you on, bud?

If you want to take that position seriously, it’s outlined well in rancieres “the distribution of the sensible”.

Politics can only happens around what we are able to experience, and what we can experience is predicated upon what and how we are able to sense, which makes all art inherently political, as a piece of art always imparts and improve upon the senses of the subject interarcting with it. You have an experience, you grow. Your distribution of what is sensible has shifted.

To take it down a notch and relate it back to the current image, what do you think a Nazi would say, if you showed them this image and presented it as art? Good chance they’d see it as an prime candidate for the untartete kunst exhibition. It’s not realistic, uses pop-culture symbolism and even, dare i say it, contains such unholy additions as vulgar everyday language, not poetry 😱

P clear then, that even the seemingly most innocent of images contain an infinite amount of assumptions around much broarder topics, fx, what is beautiful, what is allowed to be expressed, and those are very much political conversations

Thx for coming to my Ted talk

I will keep posting them.