The cartoon, drawn by the cartoonist Clay Bennett and published in ”The Christian Science Monitor” which is a religious influenced daily newspaper, deals with the social, delicate side of the global warming movement. Which is that people prefer a comfortable lie over the uncomfortable thruth.
The cartoon shows a daily life scene. In the foreground one can see people standing in a row to enter a theater. Their face expressions indicate that they are happy. Above the ticket booth one can see the inscription ”A Reassuring Lie” which seems to be the name of the movie. Next to the theater one can see another theater which bears the inscription ”An Inconvenient Thruth”. Nobody is entering this theater or is trying to see the movie. The women in the ticket booth is watching perpelexed towars the line infront of the other theater.
A possible interpretaiton is that Clayton Benett tries to draw attention to the social problem, on the one hand of the global warming but as well in general, that people favor a reassuring lie over a inconvenient thruth.
I can totally identify myself with his view of society. I like his depiction of people are afraid of facing the truth by let them watch a movie. Keeping with the motto ”As long there is the reassuring lie, I’ll watch that one”
