It's no secret that our society has its flaws - dependence on technology, taxes, obesity, devaluation of workers - to name a few. Some people may not even want to think about any of these problems in society but illustrator John Holcroft, on the other hand, he looks them straight in the eye and depicts them in a satirical way.
Though not all of us have to deal with such problems, it is a great reminder to pace yourself and to familiarize with the society today. Who knows, it might make you a better person in some way.
With a style based on 50's advertisements and a vintage feel - Holcroft perfectly captures today's social issues and modern behavior. Also, his illustrations do so in a brutally honest manner. Keep on scrolling to check them out, and you just might realize with what social media problems you have to deal every day.
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Ego Boost
Sending this to everyone who complains of my nonparticipation in Facebook.
Facebook is just an example. You can easily substitute it with an account on Disqus or whatever platform you have used to publish this comment.
Load More Replies...Facebook is ridiculous, it just gives people a reason to be in everyone else's business. I'm glad I don't have one.
Is it really bad tho to get some likes on a photo when you don't feel so good ? Sometimes your ego needs to get some food
It's a slippery slope. It starts with just one then spirals out of control in your hunger for more approval from others.
Load More Replies...Unfortunately a lot of people must have such a low self esteem to feel they have to broadcast their whole life and judge themselves by social media acceptance is tragic! Personally I'd rather enjoy my life have human contact and live it!
Consumerism
it's sad that after what the environment used to be, that today it's being taken over by plastic and other materials like it.
Reminds me of on Finding Nemo when Marlin and Dory followed that light into darker depths that ended up being a natural lure on that deep sea fish, "annnnd good feeling is gone"
This photo is amazing!! Depicts how all the trash and preventable "garbage" is being deposited in our great oceans, rivers and streams and killing the aquatic life. All can be eliminated by more conscientious people who undoubtedly are responsible!!!
Artistic commentary without words can be very powerful! Take a look!
Wasteful Industries
Basically, for his deliberate action of withdrawing commitment to moderate it - YES!
Load More Replies...Would be a lot more realistic if the figure were Chinese or Indian this is just a cheap shot. You can do better!!
What do you expect, this site if funded by Democrats.
Load More Replies...Don't stick Trump with this when he's only been in office five months.
But he doesn't think it's important to do anything about it.
Load More Replies...Democrat propaganda. Obama let poor black people drink poisoned lead water in Flint Michigan for 4 years. But you don't see the media or celebrities talking about that.
Right. Because Trump is responsible for all the factory pollution. You people are deluded.
This site is sponsored by Democrats. What do you expect? I thought some of these were interesting, until I saw the propaganda.
Load More Replies...Justice
Found it! :) You will need time, 2 lawyers, a policeman and a choice between papers and worker :D
The only thing to add would probably be a bag full of bank notes.
Load More Replies...I tried to figure out the maze, and you cant get to justice it is impossible
Muy cierto. La justicia viciada a través del tiempo, por "leyes" amañadas del legislativo, respaldadas, ejecutadas por el poder judicial, al final la corrupción bifurca a la Justicia.
Would have been equally effective with the statue of liberty in the middle.
would have been equally true with the statue of liberty in the middle.
The person seeking justice is a woman. Years and years of fighting to get the vote, own property, etc., etc. She is STILL seeking equal pay for equal work, adequate healthcare, etc., etc. IS THERE NO WAY TO Justice? How many more barriers and blocks to Lady Justice?
Bribes
I think it's proportional to the size of the doctor.... :D
Load More Replies...I live in turkey, anyone who does their taxes properly gets free medical care in turkey, including tests and surgery.
Load More Replies...I don't really get why people think that doctors just work because that's their mission. Shopkeeper or farmers are not expected to give away food for free, housing is not given away by the developers either.
Should be payed through the taxes like the police
Load More Replies...Well, he is only human, he has to eat, support his family, pay the bills, and pay off his student debt too. Maybe if his patients did all that for him for free first, then he wouldn't ask to be paid for saving their lives
Tho it is a comment on the health care system overall it is also a wakeup for the medical profession.
Doctors don't set the prices or manage the billing. The picture should show a middlemen between the patient and the doc
This is the main reason I decided not to be a doctor. There's a huge shortage & it's only getting bigger because our healthcare system is a coorperation & only greedy pigs get into gealthcare for that.
Load More Replies...Chain Of Command
I have it on good authority that the third person from the top identifies as a woman, and the person with glasses thinks gender is merely a social construct! I hope you are ashamed of yourself for making unfunded assumptions!!!
Load More Replies...Corporate concept pass the buck now applies to lack of responsibility for your actions or choices.
When you are on the bottom of job hierarchy and you look up, the only things you can see are some a**holes
New Face Each Day
I don't put on masks for a reason ... Having a fake face will only fetch me fake friends ... But I do understand that some people have to put it , it's not a choice for everyone ...
I think it is 'work face'. Also called 'Smile number 5'.
Load More Replies...It is more that "As a woman" one must put on a fake face to get ahead, to survive.
Having depression, we are great actors we are always trying to make people laugh. Because the opposite is just too hard.
this one is really deep as you can see those are girl faces or at least based on gender stereotypes they are, all the other faces are frowning while that one looks like a forced smile, this could mean a lot of things from trying to cope with clinical depression through smiling, or putting on a smile to get more friends. It's all in how you look at it
Fast Culture
This one is exaggerated. Literature will always be there in its various forms and mediums.
The point here is that there's just not TIME to read literature . Our modern world makes people magpies, attracted to shiny, useless, narcissism-feeding social media instead of challenging our brains by reading well written stories. And God forbid we should have an open, honest, and above all CIVIL debate with those who don't share our beliefs.
Amen. Unfortunately I've noticed it in myself. I really have to summon up the attention span to get into a book now. It used to be easier.
Load More Replies...There are many channels in Facebook, Twitter and YouTube that are dedicated to literature, filled with reviews, recommendation, tips for aspiring authors and interviews with published authors and much more.
Maybe the point here is that our written communication in social media lacks of the excellence of grammar, and slowly but consistently our observation of gramatic rules is being forgetted, like writing covfefe, or maybe a word in this post.
I still read books every day from the library ... just read them e-version on my iPad.
I read eBooks on my phone daily. People probably assume I'm just staring at cat memes like every else. I think this is all just perception.
Load More Replies...Tobacco Addiction
This could also be a true representation of all the money that the state earns from taxes on tobacco. I'm my country the tax is super high, which means that even with huge expenses to healthcare due to smoking, the state would be kind of f****d if everyone quit smoking :-/
There are enough other stinky deathtraps to tax.
Load More Replies...I am a smoker and I have looked into all this and it is very true, they are making more out of the anti-smoking products than they are out of the tobacco products.
Vaping just makes your addiction worse. It has 20x more times as nicotine than cigarettes do.
A metaphor for all addictions that make us spend money on what we want, NOT what we need. It all goes up it smoke. Now put that in your pipe and smoke it! :)
ahhh. but then you complain when your taxes go up because people are quitting and that tax money is Gone.. you can't have it both ways
Everything Is Money
it could be Amazon forest or every forest on earth! A tragic end of life on earth!
Just kill all people who have the power to allow something like that!
I don't think I get this one. Is the crop a money maker that he's harvesting (a cash crop) or is he wasting money by cutting it and discarding it? Agriculture is probably second to only prostitution as the worlds oldest profession. Are we not supposed to make money from farming? Oh well. I guess I missed the point.
Load More Replies...Catfishing
I guess we found the pedo on Bored Panda = whoever downvoted you <.<
Load More Replies...I thought it was catfishing. Hmm. I didn't even consider what you guys see in this. Understandable though
I could only imagine him posting something very judgmental and pretending he has a perfect life.
Today’s Problems
Missing the point totally your injury is temporary
Load More Replies...Yeah, I know that kind of chair. So low and soft that once you sit, getting up is as hard as pulling up a tree jk ;)
We have created a 'Do it for me' society, or media manipulation 'The dumbing down of society'
Energy Poor
Did you come up with that all by yourself?!? Big boy!
Load More Replies...Tesla had a solution for this, I'm sure the government has buried it, corporate greed.
Sorry, if we want to decrease global warming, we have to increase energy costs.
Gender Equality
Thank you for the interpretation, we couldn't have figured it out without you!
Load More Replies...this is a stupid double standard, there's also hiring of less experienced/qualified people just to meet some PC quota or marketing claim to appease agendas/image.
One Education For All
There's always that one question in a test where your brain's just like "Nope! Can't do it. I'm out. Bye."
I had to write about how the summer is like in Spanish on the biggest test of the year and I could only remember how to say cold ._.
Load More Replies...This illustration is about the lack of fun and creativity in education and our insistence on testing and prepping our little components to slot into the big machine, rather than engaging them in education that is relevant, interesting and useful to them.
I would love to see a semester of daily economics-checkbook, credit cards, understanding loan contracts, etc., in high school.
Common Core in the schools. This is what children feel like. They are not able to explore their own creativity. There is no reason why a child should break down because the math they are learning in first grade is too complex. Learning concepts before the basics would make anyone feel this way
I think this is a good one iv got 3 young kids and the homework and things they expect them to do is to much its almost stealing there childhood i think they do things way to quick and if you fall behind at the start you could pay dearly at a working age
ADHD sucks. Really, I promise I want this and I'm trying to do it. But, I'm not comprehending a single word here...
Now days Teaching is just a job to some teacher's, we need active participation and also encourage our children's imagination, as Michael J Fox quoted " If a child can't learn the way we teach, maybe we should teach the way they learn.
Sugar Addiction
Actually, some breakfast cereals contain more sugar (and many have more energy per same mass) than many typical winegums, liquorice products and the like...
Yeah, that's sort of the whole point of the picture ;) I'm stumped as to how all parents don't know that they are full of sugar and sodium (some have as much salt in them as chips/crisps) - so maybe they just don't care? People wouldn't feed their kid candy for breakfast, but they're fine with those cereals :( It's fine as an occasional treat, but not for normal breakfast, ugh.
Load More Replies...Lol. My dad used to call cold cereal "shredded cardboard."
Load More Replies...nothing's wrong by giving sugar cereal once in a while. i give my kids healthy breakfast all week long during school day, but on the week-end they can have a treat. it's always about balance
Absolutely. This is the downside of all food regulation, banning products with much sugar etc. If you eat healthy and balanced and, therefore, have no reason NOT to eat stuff with many calories occasionally, you pay for those you just buy without thinking otherwise. It becomes particularly absurd with sports nutrition. I guess we will live to see big red warnings on long-endurance energy bars saying "contains more sugar than advisable for a regular diet" – guess what?
Load More Replies...I had a customer say no to their child for coffee, and order her a Dr. Pepper instead, which has a lot more caffeine and sugar
Even green tea contains more caffeine than Dr. Pepper.
Load More Replies...I had a cream cheese cinnamon roll and a donut for breakfast, I see nothing wrong with this. At least the cereal has added vitamins and minerals.
Honey comb cereal is just so good tho ugh can't resist hahaha once in a while I eat it. The rest is bland cereal :/
Overeating
I get the importance, but as someone with an eating disorder: this is misleading. It is a complex issue; more than just about food.
Yeah, they're pretty down on folks different sizes, with a pretty simplistic view, unlike the others that are so deep
Load More Replies...belee it or not if you are full and your are still hungry then your eyes are bigger than your stomic
Happy Pills
Standardized Happiness
But what the point of a corkscrew if you don't have the bottle? That's not happiness to me :D
The bottle comes in another kit. You have to buy the other kits to have the complete collection.
Load More Replies...Darnit, I have two shoes, instead of one! I knew I was doing something wrong!
However, money CAN buy popcorn, as you can see here. Popcorn, my friend, is very happy.
Load More Replies...I think this image shows right the "I am". Take a closer look. Guitar, computer, video games, travelling, films... All hobbies and things that can be used for creativity, and that define ourselves. It's the perfect life everyone wishes, but it's not real. That's where the problem is.
Load More Replies...Jammed Streets
Fulfilling Parent's Dreams
I think it also has something to do with parents who have your life path planned out for you. see all the arrows on the backpack? I see them as all the ways the kid could go but the parents direct it down one path, leaving no freedom of making your own decision.
Load More Replies...Some parents I have seen, just try and control every aspect of their child's life, and then those children grow up to be over entitled a******s.
Or totally unable to make decisions and lacking self confidence on the other end of the extreme.
Load More Replies...This one is b******t if it's referring to today's kids. They get away with SO much more these days with next to no punishment if at all. These kids are now becoming adults and are taking the world down with them because of this.
I feel lucky to have never experienced this.. I never rebelled as a teenager because although my parents made sure I knew right from wrong, they never forced me to do what I didn't want to do. I might not be a doctor or a lawyer, but I'm happy with the job I have and my parents are proud of me.
Sardines
Im normally the sardine at the bottom of the tin that tries to get eaten but is too greasy because its been sitting in sardine juice for an hour
I feel kinda like this would be a good branding idea for a sardine company
lol...you suffering from that !!! Come visit egypt's underground and you will be grateful of what you have.
Cheap Workforce
Our crooked legislators (who receive "donations" from the folks they call "job creators") pass laws favoring the rich. — part of their program of WealthCare.
You light it up, it burns and when it is finished you light another one.
Employees are dispensable nowadays. They will be removed as long as they no longer have value to their employer
Treated As Items
Yes, people are meat. That does not mean cannibalism is ok. It is not. It is bad. Got it?
I think he is trying to convey how men perceive women as just a piece of meat. Or how women worry about their body aging.
Load More Replies...This is not about cannibalism. It is about viewing WOMEN as just sexual pieces of meat....there to satisfy someone else's appetite.
The mere fact that so many miss the point of this illistration (women=meat=sexual exploitation) just reinforces the message. The level of ignorance and misogony in these posts are unbelievable and leave me feeling sad and hopeless.
She is the meat that men's mouths water over thinking about what physical and emotional carnage we can create.
Starting Them Young
No no no. It's not the gun's fault. It's the people who use guns the wrong ways fault. There's nothing wrong with guns. Ignorant people.
Wish I could give you 1000 upvotes! Thank God for the 2nd amendment. It's a valuable freedom to bear arms.
Load More Replies...Best to introduce them to guns at an early age so they can learn gun safety early on. But this is a little too far. At least wait until they are old enough to walk!
Owned By Contracts
While it's true that a contract may limit your freedom to the point of actual depression, a contract can also really protect your worker's rights. It's not always a bad thing. It depends.
Totally agree here. A contract should provide both sides with saferly. Probably the artist needs to add "non-mutual".
Load More Replies...All In One
Selling An Image
Today’s Problems
When I first saw this, I don't notice the the words BANK scrawled against the side
Our money is not backed by gold, we have a fiat currency, corporate greed
Love Trap
Ya Alimony only became a problem when women started to have to pay it.
Load More Replies...I mean, yeah. But love is a conversation. People don't seem to get that anymore - they expect it to be just a happy feeling, and that you'll find someone who never makes mistakes. I feel like often times, people won't communicate problems and work it out - so yeah, it becomes a trap for them. Sorry, but you have to learn to communicate if you want a relationship.
We live in a society of instant gratification and no one wants to put the effort into dating or relationships anymore. So a love trap seems to be fitting.
The bear trap of love: women are shackled to it, men are caught in it. Really sucks for both parties.
I think the chain should be on both the man and woman's foot. 2 way street. You would have to be a brainwashed moron or a feminist to believe it's only like this.
It's more like "I'll capture you with faking love", and then the "love hurts, baby" follows.
Load More Replies...Immersed
People with newspaper/books seek no communication with other humans by reading them. And I don't think they take any part in this example. I think this example is suppose to show us, that we can sit together at a table, but we are not really 'there' with the people sitting with us. We are still for ourselves by being glued to a screen and not interacting with the real flesh and blood humans.
Load More Replies...people these days i whish we were in the olden days it was way better
This is a great example of the lack of etiquette we have today with technology. Because our technology is expanding so quickly no one thought there would be a need for such a thing. It's up to us now to teach our younger generations proper etiquette for our technology use. I know that one of the mission goals for the microsoft hololens team is to bring social interaction back to being face to face, but still have the easy access to your technology. It's a long ways to go but a great mission.
Is it something connected between the bike and the gadget? I wonder..
Most of these people are probably working or talking with someone farther away.
Time To Heal
High blood pressure due to stress bc liberty is being attacked........ and stretched and used in awful ways....
The Ensign is a bloated bag of air sensitive to the pulse of one little vein of unpatriotic temperament. I feel the Heart of Liberty, still beats strong though.
It's Ok To Be On Your Own
Nothing - maybe it's about the social sigma of being alone. I've had some weird looks dining or going to the cinema alone.
Load More Replies...Is this really a problem? A good book is way better than a bad relationship.
While there is nothing wrong with being single, I think it's about how people reject relationships after being hurt. Heck, here's a telling quote from The Walk by Richard Paul Evans. ""The thing is, the only real sign of life is growth. And growth requires pain. So to choose life is to accept pain. Some people go to such lengths to avoid pain that they give up on life. They bury their hearts, or they drug or drink themselves numb until they don't feel anything anymore. The irony is, in the end their escape becomes more painful than what they're avoiding." (Richard Paul Evans, The Walk)
Addicted To Virtual Reality
Yes I'm pretty sure your colon is not supposed to do that
Load More Replies...Gaming improves reaction time and your ability to problem solve, so f**k off...
Me as a kid growing up playing NES, then SNES, then N64. Now I have evolved to the PC master race...
No One's Irreplaceable
I would prefer a trap door! Scrooge McDuck had it for people who asked him for money!
"You are costing us too much money .... We will hire 3 part timers in your place with no experience & minimum wage "😄😄😄😄! "Cheaper is better" is the company's new motto. Take your experience dear employee & bake it in the oven because it is the only thing you will be eating for a long time due to the unemployment. ....
Expendable Love
Like shopping carts at some stores. Put in the quarter, use it, put it back.
Holy c**p, that's scary-good/disturbingly-'ERK'! Says loads about the Patriarchy.
But is it about the male-centeredeness and male chauvinism of society (and most past societies) or the way some people "use" partners? The latter could apply to the woman-man direction as well, also in terms of frequency (but I would like to see data before making any statement about frequency, of course).
Load More Replies...Notice how it's only women who are in the line that you can "use" them
Daily Dose
Housing Prices
I think this one represents paying rent, we all know that is a huge waste of money. Paying a mortgage on a home is an investment, when you sell you get your money back and more...this picture is shredding money, meaning it's not coming back to you in a usable fashion.
I can see that perspective, but I got a totally different insight - we all throw money into home ownership but it is all taken away, especially in the UK where it is sold off to fund your care in old age.
Load More Replies...I would rather own a home. That money that you spend on a house will always be yours as long as you own the home. When you rent, on the other hand, the landlord keeps the money and it doesn't do you any good.
This can also represent getting a big nice house that let's say was purchased for 110,000 on a 30 year mortgage plan. Paying 1,000 a month because you're a first time home buyer. The banks wouldn't approve you for a 60,000 dollar house but they would for a new home. 12 months times 30 for the years times 1,000.
A house does not actually have any basic value. A house shreds your money, i.e. roof repairs, plumbing, painting.
Load More Replies...i truly believe in this, everything that you are earning goes to all your Bills, foods in your house..
Today’s Problems
As a European, 17kg of weight is the weight of a child.... Sorry, I had to.
I think it refers to the British unit of weight: the stone. 17 Stone = 240 pounds or 109.1 kg
Actually this photo represents anorexia. The person is afraid that they gained weight after eating one piece of the chocolate bar. It is how society pressures everyone to be thin.
This depicts actually anorexia as the person on the scale is weighing themselves after eating only one piece of chocolate. They fear they gained weight after the one square.
The Perfect Employee
Doesn't matter. They're going to end up burning it.
Load More Replies...Even better recipe out there and it only has two ingredients... degree and needless niche experience no one gives a s**t if you're more skilled/a savant smarter then the entire company unless you have a useless piece of toilet paper with the word degree on it
I've worked with too many s**t coworkers to know they aren't doing it this way.
Illusion Of Freedom
This was Roman project I think. Big wooden wheel designed to break through enemies lines. Didn't work much...
Some days seem like we're in a mouse wheel running around and getting nowhere.
Expendable, Replaceable, And Moulded To Your Needs
Our Crooked Congress passes laws rewarding businesses that do this ... thanks to the "donations" of businesses that WANT to do this.
Data Surfing
I love the 00101011's because that's how devices work and communicate.
Brexit
I wonder in what context Turkey is more with Europe than UK is (PS: I am a Turk. PS2: It is not about EU as Norway is there too)
The leopards represent USA insurance companies coming to take over the national health service and make it as unfair and expensive as in USA,... Invited in by tory politicians who will buy stocks & shares in those companies and thus benefit from the financial penury & pain of their own people.
Click Bait
One Mould For All
Today’s Problems
Money Covers All
Using money to cover up your lies and bad breath (uncouth, ill mannered, uncivilized)?
Bottled Feelings
Internet Troll
that guy doens't look dirty,virgin,fat,35 years-old living in his parent basement enough
I see this one as working from home, you isolate yourself from the world
Fake Stats
Today's Problems
Africa
maybe about the ebola thing when we send many doctors there. the image a pretty confuse
Load More Replies...There are also dollar signs running up and down the needle opposite the numbers, in which the plunger stops at the number 13..may imply maybe the expense of health care.
I think the direction of the numbers may imply that the needle is extracting. As there are, interestingly, dollar signs opposing them.
Load More Replies...Nicely Cooked
I see it more as women trying to be a "cookie cutter" model. And men want it that way
Fixing The World
scientists solution: find another planet to populate (looking at mars) LOL
Where are the Businessmen and Politicians obstructing the Scientists?
Melting Planet
It's supposed to melt in your mouth, not in your hands?
Load More Replies...Missed opportunity to having it all by letting that chance slip through our hands
Fast Fashion
We're more focused on the size and cost of the clothes we buy than the item itself.
i don't get what's wrong with this- there's a variety of sizes, prices, sales...
Consumerism, at its best....and the labels society forces us to identify with and use as clothing to be put on, taken off, and define who we are.
Under Pressure
Empty Inside
Feeding On The Media
Slow Thinking
My brain works slower than the average person so what? That's just how I am and that doesn't mean I'm stupid. It means that I think longer.
Our brains are becoming slower and slower because computers can do all the work for us
Edmon, that's a turtle NOT a tortoise, turtles swim really fast
Inflation
Controlling With Words
Belittling words of discouragement can immobilize a person so that he is afraid to step out of his comfort zone and move towards his dreams
enough people had their dreams come true in the recent past that we're now on a grossly overpopulated dying planet and the only way you can be fulfilled is cleaning up some of that uncleanable mess
Load More Replies...Work To Survive
This is me.i am an artist who had to get an office job to pay the bills or i would gave starved. As colourful as i am i am unhappy . 9 to 5 to stay alive thy say. Im bearly alive..
Hi Jess , I'm a designer , I feel like I'm drowning . I guess it's time for me to find something new .
Load More Replies...The guy with the polka-dotted suit is what's right for the world, IMHO!
Looks like he desires a more exciting career than the hohum 9 to 5 job he's stuck in
Load More Replies...Money
Pick One
"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get" How many people do we truly know? Can we trust?
Im seeing males for the picking, not a choice in females.. and I guess that means the other guys (in the other boxes) stay dumped on a random shelf somewhere?
And someone keeps biting into them and only leaving half; being dissatisfied with flavors, someone else might have enjoyed.
Nobody Cares
When you've got a naturally quite voice, and want to join the conversation and make a statement, but they literally can't hear you. Been there so many times.
Same. It's the worst when you don't realize it's because you're quiet, and you blame it on other things.
Load More Replies...And this is why I also use my hands to talk some people pay attention .
Swimming With Sharks
me too, 7 years clean and sober, not a drop of social media. good for you.
Load More Replies...I've never actually had a problem with FB, but then, I control my friends list with an iron fist and am not a person who needs anyone other than the hand full of real friends I have out there .... all over the place. LOL
Get off of "Fakebook," people! Time sucker and it is designed to peddle untruths and discourages us from individualism. I disconnected years ago.
Pension
Itemized
Roasting WOMEN on a stick like hunks of meat that you just sell of
And The Winners Are
Immobilized
Teach etiquette! There are times where it's ok and times it stays away.
What if the girl wants to stay inside because the wondering eyes are following her and she doesn't feel safe being outside becauseshes weak
girl, you need Jesus ...I'm not being rude, I really mean that. He can and does protect you. Don't be affraid. He loves you.
Load More Replies...Build Him Like You Want Him
Men are pressured with damaging stereotypes too. The perfect man is emotionless, fit ( but not too fit), and a income earner.
Dad feels he let the family down and is all broken up over his failure. Mom and son are building his confidence back up
The poor man is broke. One man is meant to finically support a family and its destroyed him, as the cost of living and inflation goes up I expect its a crippling pressure.
It could be a power thing, he's bigger than his family and he has erupted (anger?) and his family have to pick up the pieces? Or it could symbolise trying to put together the missing pieces (sole parent?)
Trapped Inside Your Mind
Feeling like a bird trapped in a cage but it's all in your mind.. you hold the key to your happiness.. open the door and fly..
Living In A Bubble
His work is suffocating.. he needs to stop taking his work with him wherever he goes
Time Is Money
Sleeping and losing out on the money when he could have if he were working. If he wakes up and gets a job the hourglass will be flipped over and the money will flow to him
Mientras duermes, el tiempo pasa y te vuelves improductivo
Energy Prices
No, i think the prices are so high that you dont even use heat
The air conditioner is set too low. The fire is the heat outside the ice cube is the air conditioner. The bill is so high they can’t pay it.
Irony, I guess. They have to use energy to melt the ice cube to look at their energy bill.
Load More Replies...Attracting The Workforce
I don't think so. More likely, we don't have a choice, the job (money) pulls us like a magnet, because money is a "must" even for our most basic needs.
Load More Replies....... Then you get there and see the inside is different from what you saw outside.
Controlled By Others
The driver looks like a child to me, and so many children these days control their parents. Discipline is frowned upon ( not just talking about swats or spankings, however I do believe in them) " raise your child in the way of the Lord and they shall not stray fom it" it's rare to find parents raising their children in the such a way. Although, Jess I agree with your take on it as well
My parents tried to do that and I quickly became an atheist upon becoming an adult.
Load More Replies...@Hugo Raible. That does make sense. Just add “some” in front of women that way you’re not implying all women.
If only...Genesis God said to Eve for handing over the fruit to Adam.you wil suffer great labour pain ....and get this...you will wish to control your husband but never will.
Genesis 3:16, wow, didn't know that was in there....
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Brainwashing children from a young age and normalising war. No future soldiers, no more arms sales, no more war, no profits for the war mongers. Shame the toy isn't more realistic; it doen't cower when it hears loud noises and finds normal life difficult after leaving the military, drinks and takes drugs to numb the memories. There should be a suicide note and a noose in the box as well.
Are we any different than the images we see of young boys in Islamic military gear ? I was taught action man war fare as a child normalising and making war a heroic endeavour
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I like. This states it very well. This is the image I see , having lived through the technological advances in electronics as they've evolved over the past 30 plus years. Especially since I started in IT when it was a pioneering work just to build a PC. And being one of the first women in my state to own her own electronics business, it speaks on other levels. Good job.
I feel it depicts all the large old devises are now combined and fitting in the palm of our hands......
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Brexit. Tempers flair and extinguish too quickly, UK is getting burnt out. Putting a country on strike could prove fatal?
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No matter how big of office you have, from the top (Big boss, founder, president,owner) looking down your still jus like everyone else, a worker with the same agenda, make us more money 💰
No matter how big of an office you get from all the hard work, you still have the same exact job as the rest of them..( coming from the owner of the company stand point)
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From night to day.. over and over, her life seems to be repetitive like a carnival ride
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Hi Morgan, The flag in the centre is of Honduras it implies an election validated by blood and repression.
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At least it's NOT a poisonous coral snake, which has red stripes next to yellow ones! OR could this just be a mistake (?) on the artist's part ...?
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Culture and history has become a gimic for roch peach to pick and choose then advertise themselves as fancy
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Absolutely, but it does not remind me of any problem of contemporary society
Load More Replies...She is hugging the dung beetle…we know what these roll all day right? Poop.
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Idk but it's full of animal products and it's decorated with leaves...
It's all about the fact that we cut animal flesh, crack a hences egg, fry all this dead animal mess, cover it up, draw some innocent leaves and call it a food. It depicts all horible things that we do, but don't realize.
Idk what message this pic is conveying.. all I see someone making a meat pie lol
I think the heart idk being cut, and the egg representing tears and covering it up with something else
Load More Replies...I think it shows how people are fake. She maybe follow the vegetarian "trend". She eats meat, but decorate with vegetarian food to show the vegetarian she is. Like most of people saying things that they aren't. Don't know...
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This is about the 15th picture making the same point — that folks are addicted to their smart phones, computers, etc. to the point of not interacting with living people around them.
While showing us this on our smart phones ! Bizarre eh !
Load More Replies...This is more about how media consumes so much of our time and attention that it can literally hold us down from rising to whatever heights we’d wish to reach for.... career wise or whatever. It’s just holding lots of us back from reaching full potential... instead of achieving we’re just posting s**t that’s meant to make others believe we already achieved something.
I'd say : You can be easily attracted to the same direction (manipulated) via the technology.
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American products that break down easily ? So you are trying to live the american dream but are buying a cat in the bag and end up fixing more then you drive??
This seems to be a British car, one door has been changed, the car appears older than the generation of donut shaped spares, the rear tire doesn't have a hub cap, so go figure.
Load More Replies...So to.clarify that's a clutch on the ground not a rotor... Possibly it's a relationship to how expensive new car have become and the work that they require. One has to rebuild and use old junkyard parts in order to have an affordable car?
Honestly, this one does not look like a problem at all to me. This is the absolute dream come true for many people, even the part about (having to) fixing the tire. The guy here is self sufficient, he's got his spare ready and waiting, he's got a full set of wrenches. It looks like he knows what he's doing. . . He's working on his car, and lots of guys love doing that.
Linda, you loosen the lug nuts before you jack it up.
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He has got the worst shirt on for this job. Someone’s nicked the toolbox, he has had his driveway blocked by a derelict car sat on bricks for over a year now and worse yet he had to buy a full set of wheels and tyres AND this has all come about because the next door neighbour noticed that the driver window has been left cracked night after night due to hot boxing the car after dark for allowing the smoke to clear
Is the proof the artist of this he never had change a tire in his life. LOL
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As usual. Some are ingenious, others are exaggerated. All in all, although repetitive, these images are always interesting and thought provoking.
Have you noticed that your vices are the ones that are "exaggerated"?
Load More Replies...You know what's really wrong with society? Simplistic pictures criticizing complex problems.
Sometimes to make something stand out and/or reach a wider audience, complex problems have to be oversimplified or a specific point highlighted... Don't see anything wrong if it brings the main point across. :)
Load More Replies...It's kinda ironic how there's a lot on social media, while this is shared on social media, and agreed with on social media. Not saying that I'm doing any different, but it is kinda funny to think about.
Would be nice to get something good about society out of these artists for a change...
I'd like to see that man depicting what he thinks could be good for society
As usual. Some are ingenious, others are exaggerated. All in all, although repetitive, these images are always interesting and thought provoking.
Have you noticed that your vices are the ones that are "exaggerated"?
Load More Replies...You know what's really wrong with society? Simplistic pictures criticizing complex problems.
Sometimes to make something stand out and/or reach a wider audience, complex problems have to be oversimplified or a specific point highlighted... Don't see anything wrong if it brings the main point across. :)
Load More Replies...It's kinda ironic how there's a lot on social media, while this is shared on social media, and agreed with on social media. Not saying that I'm doing any different, but it is kinda funny to think about.
Would be nice to get something good about society out of these artists for a change...
I'd like to see that man depicting what he thinks could be good for society
