a cartoon by B. KlibanWhile two people could be equally wrong about something, they would still go on arguing who's right or wrong. This could be one's first impression of this cartoon.
Another interpretation would go like this: I (reading the cartoon) am just another person standing there, looking at the "object" on the table, with a cloud above my head depicting a round sphere.
In other words, from the point of view of that guy on the left, there is a potato shaped object on the table, while two men (me and the guy on the right) are making slightly off interpretations of it.
So this cartoon could about the fact that we tend to forget about the symmetry of subjectivity. At the first glance, our view looks dominant since we "see" the truth there lying on the table, while those guys just have clouds of thoughts, or what we often refer to as their "opinions". But we need to understand that we all could be looking at a cube (who says so?!).
Another interpretation would go like this: I (reading the cartoon) am just another person standing there, looking at the "object" on the table, with a cloud above my head depicting a round sphere.
In other words, from the point of view of that guy on the left, there is a potato shaped object on the table, while two men (me and the guy on the right) are making slightly off interpretations of it.
So this cartoon could about the fact that we tend to forget about the symmetry of subjectivity. At the first glance, our view looks dominant since we "see" the truth there lying on the table, while those guys just have clouds of thoughts, or what we often refer to as their "opinions". But we need to understand that we all could be looking at a cube (who says so?!).
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