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I get the confusion. Please do not think I'm begging for any arrows at all.

The segregated black kitty looks sad; the basketed/towelled grey kitties look comfortable. Add the "apartheid" label and it becomes a liitle humorous. But what of aparthied is there to laugh at? Nothing.

So the circular surrealism of the "motivational" poster style of presentation, mixed with the funny/unfunny caption makes the gestalt of the lolcat wry and odd and amusing to me. I can cry about apartheid and smile at the kitty cuteness at the same time. I can laugh, catch myself before I laugh, feel uncomfortable about the paradox and finally find a small bit of uplift in spirit having realized these mixed emotions at the same time. (Is the unexamined life worth living? I dunno, but it's more fun with cute kittens.)

This lolcat may not approach literature, but is as paradoxically interesting as the sentence "This sentence is false." but adds a 20th century morality question upon the paradox.

Thus, I decided to share my mindset when I viewed this jpeg in the Fark Caturday thread today. I found it interesting, and hoped others would, too.

Quoting Dr. Killpatient:

Quote:
I don't know what's worse - someone who psychoanalyzes a lolcat macro or ... no, I can't think of something worse than that. 

Oh yes, please - let's keep this lolcat place as an island of happiness! Maybe a place to forget all those arrow things... 

WRONG:


RIGHT:

Dune kitty.