cynicism, snark, holiday-adjacent, arboricide
This cartoon would fit my worldview much better if in the last panel, the conifer's trunk were severed and it had little X-ed out eyes.
I mean, isn't that basically what we did to, just to name one example, Robin Williams? Scorned him and made fun of his inadequacies until he was sacrified, and then he was revered once he was safely dead and thus Perfect Forever?
And all the other artists who nobody showed the faintest appreciation for until they were dead and only existed as a safe, still abstraction...
The fucking pine tree is fine. It was fine before. Its day already came every winter of every year because it was already perfect for its environment. Your fruit is neat and all, Mx. Deciduous, but don't push your friends into being something they don't need, for someone else's approval.
re: cynicism, snark, holiday-adjacent, arboricide
(There is also a valid perspective, presumably the author's, in which this is very sweet and supportive, and I see what they're getting at, of course.
It doesn't HAVE to be analyzed in such cynical terms, It's just what came to mind for me -- when I saw it, my first thought was just "Um, aren't most trees DEAD by the time they're decorated like that and having 'their day?!'")
