NY post cartoon

When I first saw the ad I thought about it more in reference to the writing of the stimulus bill rather than a racial stereotype of Barack Obama. It would indicate that the stimulus bill is a document that the police obviously don’t have a lot of faith in.
If you look at the circumstances surrounding the death of the monkey, the 911 call from its owner tells the police to kill him, even thought he was practically a member of her family. This lack of hope is ironic considering that hope is generally one of Obama’s key speaking points. After looking at the cartoon a second time, it is obvious what the artist thinks of Obama’s skills as president. Depicting him as a monkey just adds insult to injury. After indirectly criticizing Obama’s competence to write the bill, the appalling racial offense shows deliberate racism.

Modernization

Marx and Engels describe modernity as “all that is solid melts in the air.” Modernity is described as not only the act of change, but as the yearning for newness as well. He goes on to say that change cannot be stopped, and if you do not change with the rest of the world, you will be passed by.

Modernism is essentially how we can measure the passage of time through culture. For example, communication used to be primarily face to face or through written form. After a time people began to speak over the phone, and many years later the internet. It is next to impossible to keep up with the new cell phone technology that is implemented at the present time. Just by looking at how far we have come shows how inevitable modernism is, and how right Marx was when he said that the rest of the world will pass you by if you refuse to keep up with society. If one was to try to communicate with friends through letters rather than instant messenger, they would be seriously out of touch.