Cartoons of the modern world, mired in digital technologies, the Internet, social networks

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Needless to say, in our digital age, computers and mobile communications have almost completely captured humanity, its time, thoughts and feelings. They have so closely filled our lives that we began to spend more time in the virtual network than in reality. Sometimes such computer addiction reaches the point of absurdity and anecdotal situations. Therefore, this burning topic never ceases to inspire cartoonists, who in their works sometimes tartly, rudely and sarcastically, and sometimes with good humor, ridicule people's dependence on the virtual world.

Modern people, born before the 80s of the last century, do not cease to be sincerely surprised and admired at how far technological progress has literally gone over the past 15 years. They unexpectedly found themselves in an era that until quite recently they could not even dream of, and knew about it only from books and films from the field of science fiction. Surprisingly, in a disproportionately short period of time, everything has changed, and now, probably, more than half of humanity cannot imagine their life without mobile phones, computers, and the worldwide Internet. And some even "moved" to the virtual world, and lost touch with reality.

In all fairness, it is worth noting that the fruits of progress have undoubtedly brought a lot of useful and positive into our lives, although a lot of negative ones. So, now people began to prefer communication over the network to live communication. For in modern life, in the opinion of many, there is no feeling of naturalness, so people leave it on the Internet and get everything that they lack: friendship identical to natural, love identical to real, and life itself - completely identical to real life.

All this, of course, would be very funny if it were not so sad …

Therefore, cartoonists in many countries try, through their sometimes sharp, and sometimes good humor, to influence the problem that swept most countries of the world, since the satire pen has always been considered one of the most effective ways to influence humanity. It is the humorous caricature that has always been at the forefront in the fight against its vices, it is it that has the highest degree of presentation in the visual arts.

This review includes an original selection of funny, ironic, sarcastic cartoons that clearly demonstrate what a person looks like, lost on the Internet and hovering in the temporary space of social networks. Cool cartoons about the Internet show the life of a modern person who cannot do without several hours a day on the World Wide Web.

And perhaps, after looking at the selection, many will recognize themselves and wonder whether it is worth sacrificing real values for the sake of fictional, virtual ones.

You will be surprised, but the genre of caricature is a very ancient art with centuries-old roots. Even in ancient Egypt, cartoonists ridiculed, belittled, debunked myths, showed the hard-hitting sides of the life of the rulers, for which they were persecuted and persecuted in all centuries. in a fascinating review.