Angriest Rice Cooker in the World Director’s Cut 7–On opiates and masses
Some of the comics started with a basic idea of what the punchline would be, but a lot of them just started with a famous quote or fact, and then I just added some wiseassery to turn it into a comic. This was one that I remember struggling with a lot as far as the wording went, although I was pretty sure that there was a joke in that quote somewhere.
This comic reminds me of a time when I was in high school debate. We did an exercise where we drew some kind of a quote or saying or other statement out of a hat and had to talk about it for a continuous minute with no pause fillers, repetition, word searching, etc. Our debate teacher let us suggest ideas to go into the hat, and I suggested”Religion is the opiate of the masses”. But when someone pulled it out, our teacher had rendered it as “Religion is the drug of the masses.” He said that he didn’t think that everyone in the class would understand it if he had left it as “opiate.” Now, I will admit that that debate class was a touch…colorful, and that not everyone there was exactly honor roll material. But this was just clueless. For two reasons, in fact. First off, the point of the quote is that religion relaxes and pacifies the masses, like opium. It would mean something totally different to call religion the “PCP of the masses,” although I think you could make a case for that one too.
Second, if that colorful bunch knew one thing, it was drugs.
I made one minor edit to the Director’s Cut version of the comic below the cut–can you see what it was?
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