My attitude is, if you’re good enough you can get away with it. But I couldn’t decide if this was good enough to pull it off.

Then I thought, if it has me thinking that hard about it, it’s a great piece for that reason alone. Which mightn’t be the point at all. Does this one count as art?

Better laughter than tears, I guess.

I don’t see how that detracts.  The many children killed, were killed by a U.S. service person, overstressed in a war that they (the child victims) had no part or say in, a war that enriches elites and policy makers.

And what policy and organisation set the events in Toulouse in notion? 

Merah was inspired by religious terrorist organizations that for the most part exist, and gain recruits ( or lone acting wannabes) because of Western imperialism.

I noticed you didn’t mention Trayvon since the institutional racism and violence in that case is so incredibly obvious that it doesn’t even need explaining to those too slow to pick up on the comic’s satire.

In case you missed it, every story features children who are helpless victims out of an adult ugliness that’s out of their control. Pretty teens fighting in fantasy movies sells big tickets, but in reality children in cities, and war zones around the world face extreme violence and indifferent adults and policy makers. Adults who invade poor countries, lobby for “stand your ground” laws, fail to properly investigate the murders of minority children, enact policies that breed poverty and violence and so on.

Basically, I think you’re splitting hairs. A Modest Proposal was effective despite the fact that officials were not really considering turning poor kids into food.. That’s satire.

If you want to get crazy, all of these events were, in a way, orchestrated by major organizations. The Trayvon Martin shooting/media circus undeniably has many major organizations to thank for its existence: the media, Florida state law, powerful lobby groups, powerful industries, America’s legal, social and political history, the Sanford police dept., and protest groups that have a national reach.

The killings in France are directly related to Al Queda, a powerful international organization well-known for turning useless, barbaric and Pyrrhic attacks into attention-grabbing media events to further their insane and inscrutable political, religious and social goals.

The killings in Afghanistan are directly related to one of the most powerful organizations in the world – the United States Military.

Now sure, the US Army and the NRA and Florida republicans circa 2005 never intended that an innocent kid get shot to death or that a Staff Sgt murder a bunch of innocent civilians, but their organizations were the alpha to these sad omegas. And after these events occur, the media has no choice but to tell these stories to us in lurid detail because we want them to; we pay them very well for the service.

And that’s how these significant events become nightmarish spectacle to the public. In the Hunger Games, a fictional totalitarian regime uses death sport to keep people entertained and in terrified thrall to the powers that be. In the real world, different organizations use their version of events surrounding aberrant, nightmarish tragedies that spring from the God-head of our complicated world to further their agenda. 

.   The massacre in Afghanistan was against sleeping civilians, nearly 50 percent adults.  And what policy and organisation set the events in Toulouse in notion?  

“Organizations” and policy set the table for these three horrific events, so I don’t think it’s as unrelated as you think. They hardly happened in a vacuum.

All they and “The Hunger Games” have in common is violence against children/young adults.  Oh, they probably all ate bread, too.