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[–] Donkter@lemmy.world 114 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Shitass little kid can't even think of what to turn a tree into. LMAO

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 32 points 5 months ago (1 children)

On one hand, I want to mail you a brick. On the other hand, I am upvoting you for your shitposter take.

[–] ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Mail a brick with the force of a comet

[–] RickAstleyfounddead@lemy.lol 5 points 5 months ago

Express mail

[–] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net 25 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is something we really need to take on: not all value needs to be utility or monetary based. Things can have existential value, too.

Unfortunately we take the former approach with just about everything. We willingly tie our worth as a human to our work performance or some other ridiculous metric. You don't have to be the paragon of project management, or a world famous influencer to be deemed worthy. You are worthy just because you exist.

Trees, frogs, and mosses all have inalienable rights to exist, too. Since they comprise the natural world, and actually perform functions to sustain said world, they have value. Moreso, I would argue, than an exemplar of project management, or bumping up a number on the NYSE. More value than the table we could make from the trees, or the extra bit of space we could use from destroying wetland (frog) habitat.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 4 points 5 months ago

Reminds me of this story. The commentary isn't really necessary, imo. The story stands without it.

https://ando.life/journal/the-useless-tree

[–] sir_pronoun@lemmy.world 16 points 5 months ago (1 children)

..poor little Timmy later got lost and went on to die from exposure in that forest, unable to build shelter.

[–] Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

He just couldn't work out what to do with the sticks. Insisting the sticks not be moved from where they fell was ultimately the problem, if you ask me.

[–] Rolando@lemmy.world 15 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Is this by Sergio Aragones? It looks like his style. I did a reverse image search and couldn't figure it out.

[–] bazus1@lemmy.world 8 points 5 months ago

Absolutely his style. He a real one.

[–] stabby_cicada@slrpnk.net 6 points 5 months ago

Looks like it but I don't know. The site I stole it from had already removed any signature, if there was one.

[–] BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 months ago

I was thinking it looks like one from MAD magazine, so it must be Sergio.

[–] best_username_ever@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 months ago

Definitely Sergio. No doubt about it.

[–] AceQuorthon@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 5 months ago

I like how the comic becomes progressively sun bleached

[–] pennomi@lemmy.world 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Dude in the third panel needs to go to the hospital. His leg is bending the wrong way.

[–] rooroo@feddit.de 6 points 5 months ago

That’s why he’s thinking about furniture, man needs to rest.

[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.de 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

All of these views are valid. A tree has to be seen for what it can provide. If it’s more valuable to society and nature as a tree, leave it be. If other trees can gain from it being removed earlier than its natural decay demands, I’d argue to remove it.

[–] Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This tree is by a path, so it's better to leave it be.

Other trees can be sustainably harvested and made into whatever our society needs.

[–] Darukhnarn@feddit.de 1 points 5 months ago

Depends. Is it stable? Does it pose a threat to passer bys ?

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

This implies that only children enjoy trees for their natural beauty, that is just dumb.

[+] Track_Shovel@slrpnk.net -6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

beuty

That is just dumb

Uh....

That's also not what this is implying. Go make a board game about jumping to conclusions. I hear red staplers are on sale at Walmart.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 8 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Then tell me what it implies when all adults in the comic wants to cut the tree down, and only the kid appreciate the beauty of the tree as it is?

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Kids are often used as an allegory for the innocent/naive/uncorrupted/enlightened

The kid sees the tree for what it is, not what it could be manipulated into as the other character do.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

That is basically what I wrote with other words.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social -1 points 5 months ago

Go find your inner child. He/she/they are crying out for love, protection.

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world -3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Many of our words are the same, but you asked a question and I provided an interpreted answer.

Edit: To say it specifically

The fourth character was drawn as a character representing an enlightened perspective. Rather than having multiple panels or having text to describe this, the character was drawn as a child as a shorthand since children come with that association in most cultures.

This is opposed to the other characters drawn in different walks of life's who have their own unenlightened motives which we assume by default within the context of the forth panel.

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Which doesn't really answer why the other guy disagreed with me.

[–] cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

The issue is that you called it dumb because you interpret it as "only children" are enlightened enough to see the tree as a tree.

But I don't believe that is the intent of the comic, instead, they simply drew a child as a shorthand representation for the concept of enlightenment.

I believe any person can be so enlightened to see something as it is, and not what it could be made into if they wanted to.

Therefore, I don't think the comic is dumb as you stated. I think the comic is attempting to motivate people to see things as they are and be enlightened.

Also there was a little humor in the misspelling of a common word when calling something dumb, in the way of "kettle calling the pot black"

[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 5 months ago

I can see how me using the word dumb in that context could cause a disagreement, especially as I misspelled beauty, I could have used shallow instead.

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 0 points 5 months ago

Something about looking and not seeing. Or those who have eyes to see...I wonder if this is our mythical third eye, the ability to imagine, extrapolate eg child/inner child, in this instance.

[–] Alice@beehaw.org 2 points 5 months ago

The child is someone who doesn't have a financial stake in what the tree is used for. It's narrative shorthand for innocence, but it doesn't mean "only children think this way".

Otherwise it wouldn't be encouraging the readers, presumably adults, to think that way, because it would be impossible.

[–] athos77@kbin.social 5 points 5 months ago

I wanna build a tree house and live symbiotically.

[–] nicknonya@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 5 months ago

one will protect you the other will try to kill you

[–] Maeve@kbin.social 2 points 5 months ago

[–] FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 1 points 5 months ago

If they only get like a day of prep time, Carpenter. If it's a longterm battle, the youth.

[–] Johanno@feddit.de 0 points 5 months ago

I would imagine to set it on fire....