How To: Get Excited About Yourself (MetaPost 2.0)

        My favorite blogpost this quarter is "How To: Read the Fine Print", because writing that post really proved to me that I have become a more skeptical receptor of medias over the course of this year. In the post, I discuss a seemingly harmless two page photograph printed at the beginning of February's edition of  National Geographic. Because the magazine is circulated monthly, and because I am quite the fan of it, I probably read it three or four times cover to cover. It wasn't until I came back to this edition in April seeking inspiration for a blogpost that I finally noticed the caption, printed in small, nearly invisible letters on the bottom left hand side of the page.
        Instantly I was intrigued merely because I had not noticed the caption any of the times I flipped past the photograph before, but my excitement heightened after discovering (at least what I thought to be) the secret message lying beneath the romanticized photo of a shepard in Afghanistan.
        National Geographic probably receives upwards of one thousand photo submissions each day, yet the editors chose to include a relatively uninteresting photo of a man leading sheep through a mud wall  "who is (not coincidentally) in Afghanistan, a country the United States currently has soldiers fighting a war in."
        The reason I found this blogpost so exciting is simply because I noticed some type of modern anti-war propaganda on my own; I'm sure it's not as cool as I think it is. But isn't that the point?