A hierarchy of epistemic operation levels and levels of abstraction in cartoon interpretation

// upside down because Vi is not radical enough.
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ObjectiGeeks + UsersOfObjectivism: Enjoy.

Others: Don't give up. you are starting to get it.

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0.0. Look! A funny cartoon!

0.1. A funny cartoon about a man killing his wife.

0.2. Domestic violence is not funny.

0.3. This funny cartoon conveys a socially important message about the pervasiveness of domestic violence.


1.0. Look! A funny cartoon about President Obama killing Hilary Clinton.

1.1. This cartoon of President Zero killing Her Hilariousness is funny, but the guy needs to learn how to draw reflections and faces.

1.2. Civility, and civilization, are so absent in America, that it is acceptable to publish the delusional claim that the President is plotting to murder a member of His cabinet.

1.3. We So own this judge that we can get him to accept a cartoon as Probable Cause.


2.0. Stupid cartoonist thinks that we don't get that it's about President Obama killing Hilary Clinton.

2.1. Audit him. When someone draws our President making a Killing, he must think that we cannot find his money and audit it. We can.

2.2. The only thing that this cartoon does not tell us about the cartoonist is whether or not he was born.

2.3. We know what we know. You don't.


3.0. When drawing the Phallos is taboo, cartoonists will draw phallic symbols.

3.1. The taboo interpretation is always funnier.

3.2. The subtext is always more taboo.

3.3. Skip to subtext. Is funny.


4.0. I can't believe someone actually drew this cartoon.

4.1. I cannot fathom how this cartoon was not flagged as a violation of the Terms of Service.

4.2. The Terms of Service guy must have read this cartoon as a socially important message about the pervasiveness of domestic violence.

4.3. In Communism, the Censor is called The People's Censor. In Fascism, the Terms of Service are Regulated only by the most minimal Regulations, which are necessary to make sure that the Terms of Service call the expression on the Service "Free Expression," and that the censor is called "the Terms of Service guy."

4.4. Totalitarianism begins, when there is a censor.  Totalitarianism begins to end, when the Terms of Service guy starts pretending that he doesn't get the joke.