30 Honest Illustrations About The Things That Are Wrong With Today’s Society By John Holcroft

This is depressing.

It shows that us women work a lot harder then men but get lower respect

Mansplaining

Tony’s Chocolonely. Slave-free chocolat and really delicious. Just look it up. It is great.

Watch out for those false friends.

I dont see a Panda here

That’s a beautiful depiction

This one strikes me as a sentiment on pollution- the scientists are trying to push global warming into reverse

sigh...yeah

He doesn't feel so good. (I'm sorry! I know this is a real problem in our society)

Women too, let’s stop bashing men they’re not all the same

I know I shouldn’t laugh but seeing Ronald McDonald as a food baby is funny as.

I never did this. My son is 5 and goes on the iPad once in a blue moon and never plays with my phone.

Facebook has become much of society's weapon of choice when it comes to expressing their opinions (or blasting others' opinions)

I’m hungry now

I wonder if when books first became widespread did they prompt the same overreaction as we are now seeing with tablets, phones etc?

The government cutting the funding for science?

This is entirely original and has never before been depicted in art.

I think this oversimplifies things.

an economy based solely on sales (and not service or production) will fall like a row of dominoes

PLEASE.

My opinion is that he’s looking to pills to fix his problem and not finding the answers there. Maybe it’s not about modern medicine as much as it is about people expecting pills to cure-all for certain things but not putting in the real world work. The pill is empty because it didn’t solve their problem. Maybe?

Gattaca ♥

Now I kinda want to build myself a lego fortress of my own.

This is the unintended consequence of the Genome Project on the nature vs nurture argument. Suddenly everyone started thinking “There’s a gene for that” about every aspect of human variation, including those that are shaped more by environment. Therefore, if someone is deemed aberrant, it’s automatically attributed to genetics, rather than the neglect and/or brutality they may have had to survive from childhood. This, in turn, can lead to labeling, which means society automatically writes them off as not worthy of our time and attention, and basically disposes of them through the school to prison pipeline—-strong and immobilizing shackles, indeed.

Your roots (i.e. upbringing) feed your brain.

Our necessities are starving babies that the government controls with the promise of money they may or may not get.

Queenex.

When they @ you they trap you.

This here ain't nothing but awesome. I don't see the problem.

Not sure exactly what the commentary is supposed to be here, but this is a pretty accurate depiction of the way economies work... Like how people are surprised when the stock market doesn’t continue to go up (or down) forever, it’s like, yeah, that’s how it works...

I like this one. Simple, yet powerful and full of meaning. And pretty original too.

Thanks God for GPS. ♥

Besides the point but ow it's gonna be excruciating for their heads crunched in the zipper

This isn’t about him wanting to take it or not. It’s about the fact that he’s literally tethered to it forever. If he wants to keep living, he is stuck dragging around this ball and chain. Yeah it keeps him alive but let’s not act like it’s not a burden. Especially if the price on that medicine goes up. He’s STILL going to be tethered to it if he wants to live.

ka-BOOM!!!

That treasury shark is cutting spending on education.

"Would you like paper, plastic, or lettuce leaf to carry your groceries?"

With the right amount of drive, determination and stamina, you too can be a star!

Being part of the mundane workforce has sadly removed his drive and ambition...

Wondering if it's about a house that pollutes the environment seeing the amount of smoke going out of the chimney

Glad that little guy is in there to digitize everybody’s ballots...

99 Luftballoons ♥

She's living in a man's world and so has to lock up the s in she to live and compete like a he... my guess

I think the issue may be that Mavis toothpaste is marketed as a premium product with exotic flavors (in this case, licorice) but testing has shown a number of bottom of the barrel, less-than- good for you ingredients.

The Batchelor: Stilt-walkers Edition

I don't get this one

One side for birth control, one side for ED pills!

Wasting money

Pixar's Rolling Stones fan in Cars.

Tiny portions!

Like Dad use to say "money doesn't grow on trees", well neither does any of that stuff.

Austerity turned into Prosperity...the way government fools us

I got nuthin!