MAN: Mass media is allergic to nuance!
The only ideas really able to take ROOT in our culture are short, punchy approximations.
People hear the SLOGAN and think they know the ISSUE. However, concepts have to trade away COMPLEXITY to gain widespread appeal!
WOMAN: but EVERYTHING WE KNOW is simplified to some degree. Even if we're experts down to the ATOMIC LEVEL--there's alway the SUBATOMIC.
MAN: The problems arise when oversimplified concepts evolve into COMMON KNOWLEDGE. Then the COMPLICATED version--the MORE ACCURATE version--starts sounding to the public like HERESY!
MAN: For example, everyone "knows" that smoking is bad. So when you try to explain that YES, smoking is LARGELY bad--but it's ALSO highly effective, in infants, at warding off MURDEROUS TRANS-DIMENSIONAL BELLYBUTTON GNOMES...
Nobody even wants to TRY it!
WOMAN: Clearly, the media is controlled by a sinister cabal of baby-murdering gnomes from another dimension.
MAN: THAT'S THE TITLE OF MY BOOK!
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The computers tell me it was 20 years ago, June 9, 2006, that I arrived in New York for my first-ever comic convention as an exhibitor, MoCCA.
It was an important trip for me, a milestone in what would go on to become my career.
I wrote a little reminiscence on Patreon (free/unlocked) — including a first-since-then reprint of the photocomics I made at the time, documenting the trip!
Read the rest here: [ 20 Years Ago (In Photocomic Form) ]
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