You may think it’s just a funny meme, but it’s not. Imagine this was a point in time one thousand or two thousand years ago. A strong leader, standing against the hordes of his enemies, preaching something that everyone feels is right, but they are simply too scared to say it out loud, raising the fallen flag, giving hope to and consolidating those who deemed themselves and their cause lost. That is how so many great leaders of the past came to be, that’s how they became saints and had their icons drawn by their believers. Here it’s not just a meme, it is an icon overloaded with deep meaning. Two thousand years ago this would have been a painting hung on a monastery wall, with candles under it. It is a manifestation of an idea and a tribute to the man who impersonates it. Put it on a flag and you can assemble an army behind it.