Tuesday, September 19, 2023

Heaven and Hell

 



I love the spirit of this cartoon I found in a 1970 issue of Boston's left-wing / anti-war / anti-establishment newspaper Old Mole.
Viewed across 50 years of increasing cynicism and me-ism, the sentiment seems almost quaint in its simple appeal to other-directedness.
The copy reads: A Vietnamese Version of Heaven and Hell.
Hell is a huge banquet where there is food for everyone but people cannot eat because their hands are bound to chopsticks 10-feet long.
Heaven is the same but the people feed each other.

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