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[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I was confused when I saw the Armistice Day Google Doodle today, and the dove was all mechanized.

It was weird that the letters were mechanized, but I figured that it was representing the machinery of warfare, and then the dove rising up above it all taking center stage of the art, leaving the destruction behind and going to a better place. Something was wrong with the dove though. I went to the doodle page to get the bigger size picture, and I saw that the dove had mechanisms and gears in it. I really couldn't understand that, I couldn't make sense of it.

I finally realized that even while I was looking at "Veteran's Day" on the screen, my mind was interpreting the day as the end of World War I and the voice of God. That's not Google's interpretation. The dove is a machine because it's representing a warplane. I guess my interpretation is just a sign of how badly out of touch I am from normal American culture. I probably have it that way because of Kurt Vonnegut.

Google's Armistice Day doodle is a celebration of war, with the dove providing air support.

We are fucked.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 days ago

Google Doodles have gone so far from cute into annoying that I have them blocked, but today's sounds like a doozy indeed.