Society Now - Lexor Cerda

Today’s assignment is to review and reflect over one of Gerhard Haderer’s cartoons, many of the cartoons published were over how society currently is. Never did I imagine that this is the way us as a whole would be portrayed, it looks awful and a bit over exaggerated, yet he is accurate over the portrayal. There's one piece that really did bring my attention, it's a group of sad men and women purchasing a smile (Happiness). Afterwards they get out of line with a mask over their face with a wide bright smile. Personally I believe this symbolizes that in some cases people believe that money buys happiness, where this is not the case. Perhaps there's a great amount of satisfaction to it, but truly there is no such thing as being able to purchase it. With all the many things that can brought in modern times, people create this ideology and Haderer depicts it very well.