We live in a world of cartoons. People have become cartoons of their selves. The ego is a cartoon, as well as a carton to stop the spirit from being.
Look no further than the two most (supposedly) powerful men in the world right now: Trump and Putin, not to mention a whole host of other country leaders. They're all cartoons...
Moreover, Man has become a cartoon of the human... a juvenile, infantile, spoilt being, who sees nothing wrong with indulgence and perversion. The cartoon is a perversion of the actual character, a caricature: a representation, pictorial or descriptive, in which beauties or
favorable points are concealed or perverted and peculiarities or defects
exaggerated, so as to make the person or thing represented ridiculous,
while a general likeness is retained.
These cartoons have become self-aware to the point where they now know they are cartoons. But now they're doing something about it. Hence, the green...
As an old master once said: The student of Zen must learn to waste time conscientiously....
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