It's nothing

You know, I couldn't really figure out what this comic was commenting on until now. It's rich people. The lions are rich people "educating" the masses on why they should be thankful that the lions exist.
- It can be applied to any hegemonic class, really.
  But yes, it's rich people. Public schools may have originally risen out of defiance of the hegemony, at least in some notably locations, but they were quickly captured by it.
  Schools over a place where the rich of the past can be aggrandised, and the rich of the present can ensure the workforce gains the basic skills to keep making them money, while also hearing about how it is right, and natural, and inevitable that they get to keep the product of your labour.
  
  A place where your movement and thought is determined by schedules down to the minute and broken up by bells is an industrialist's wet dream.
  "WORK TIME IS NOW"
  "REST WHEN THE BELL RINGS"
  "LUNCH TODAY WILL BE SLOPPY JOES"
  
  “I’ll tell you how I feel about school, Jerry: It’s a waste of time. Bunch of people runnin’ around bumpin’ into each other, got a guy up front says, ‘Two plus two,’ and the people in the back say, ‘Four.’ Then the bell rings and they give you a carton of milk and a piece of paper that says you can go take a dump or somethin’. I mean, it’s not a place for smart people, Jerry. I know that’s not a popular opinion, but that’s my two cents on the issue.” — Rick
- Yeah, it is a really good one. But I keep seeing people not getting the metaphor behind it. So normally I'd be like, seriously dude, you had to write that out? But in this case, yes, yes you had to and thank you for that!
  
  Yeah, I don't know why it took so long to click.
- Oil companies sponsoring school science fairs
- This is one of my favorite comics and I'll say something I've said before:
  Even the lion who wants to start the school thinks he's helping the antelope and the other lions think he's crazy, possibly even a class traitor. He thinks he's helping, but his entire worldview is from a lion's perspective, so he's not equipped to get the antelopes to think outside of the Predator-Prey dynamic. In the real world, it's very possible for people to think that they're helping, but if they aren't prepared to question the underlying foundations of a system they're a part of, then they may never make any real changes.
- Yup, just like religion teaches us that poor people go to heaven and rich fucks go to hell. So don't struggle against the latter, just do as your told and it will all work out
- It's commenting on a scene in The Lion King that explains why the lion king exists, which inadequatedly made it one of the most conservative Disney cartoon ever, only rivaled by blackface and stuff like that.
- Not just exist. But exist because of the masses making them that wealthy from the underpaid worker to the consumer.

Ah, the rare lesser spotted SFW Oglaf.
- I dont know, that lion is going straight for it on the last pannel.
  
  I still consider some light ass eating to be SFW by Oglaf standards.
  
  Memento Mori et dat ass
  requiescant in pieces
- Fun fact: Oglaf is actually two people. Trudy Cooper and Doug Bayne. Both Australian. Both, presumably, horny weirdos.

Ah yes, interspecies ass eating. What a time to be alive
- I mean, it is Oglaf...
  
  I thought the art style looked familiar!
- I love the internet

- Thanks !

Capitalism in a nutshell.
- Not really - the lions actually provide a benefit, unlike capitalism. The comic can be taken completely seriously and it's true. Predators are very important to an ecosystem.
  
  As a resident of a state where deer kill more people than the mountain lions we eradicated ever did, this rings true.
  Along that line, you could argue that capitalists perform a similar function in economic ecosystems, exploiting the poor and swallowing up the weak. But then human society isn't built to create an efficient profit mechanism. It exists to provide safety, cooperation, discovery, and the betterment of all humankind. Nobody needs to suffer at the hands of the economic predators.
- Isn't that the joke? Is there some other meaning that I am not picking up on?
- All the socio economical classism it brings with it summed up quite succinctly in a comic. Yikes.
- Right, since the USSR and mid century China are widely known as bastions of academic freedom.
  
  I never understand why people think whataboutism arguments actually mean anything. Do they do this at home too? When their significant other suggests they need to do a better job picking up after themselves, is their first response about how the neighbour across the way is a bit messy so it doesn't matter?

where is the source
- A normally very NSFW comic called Oglaf. Brilliantly written, but don't browse at work.
  
  Oh, I knew that style was familiar to me but couldn't place it with the total lack of nudity and kinkyness.
  Well, I guess it has ass-eating not in the usual Oglaf way.

Damn, that hits hard

Oglaf: putting out cutting social commentary and nicely drawn naked folks for… a long time now

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