Ah Sweet Man-Made Horrors

ah sweet man-made horrors within the scope of comprehension

A boy on a beach uses two yellow plastic toy excavators to dig in the sand while Peter Griffin sits comfortably in a green armchair below. The joke is that familiar human-made objects and simple technology feel reassuringly understandable, contrasting with the terrifying complexity of nature or the unknown; it is used as an absurd reaction to something comprehensible and mundane. EN: A boy on a beach uses two yellow plastic toy excavators to dig in the sand while Peter Griffin sits comfortably in a green armchair below. The joke is that familiar human-made objects and simple technology feel reassuringly understandable, contrasting with the terrifying complexity of nature or the unknown; it is used as an absurd reaction to something comprehensible and mundane.

• @eternalclassic / 7611 2022-01-29