Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal by Zach Weinersmith for August 14, 2020
August 13, 2020
August 15, 2020
Transcript:
The world is worse now?! Science is better. Tolerance is more widespread. Lifespans are- Oh, sorry. You should know, I've decided to identify all change as social decay. I plan to be a self-aware old man.
If it was around before you were born, it’s natural and God-given. If was invented before you turned 25, it’s new and great and exciting. After that, anything new is the Devil’s work!
Maybe I’m just too deeply in the partisan mind set, but I absolutely can’t tell the difference between “self-aware old man” and an exact description of the Conservative worldview for the past several decades.
Algolei I over 4 years ago
If this is the future, shouldn’t they both be speaking Mandarin? Um, or possibly Klingon?
rmercer Premium Member over 4 years ago
“Things ain’t what they used to be!” i.e. dW/dt ≠ 0.
Differentname over 4 years ago
If it was around before you were born, it’s natural and God-given. If was invented before you turned 25, it’s new and great and exciting. After that, anything new is the Devil’s work!
Darsan54 Premium Member over 4 years ago
Well, that would explain quite a few things.
tims145 over 4 years ago
Maybe I’m just too deeply in the partisan mind set, but I absolutely can’t tell the difference between “self-aware old man” and an exact description of the Conservative worldview for the past several decades.
944im Premium Member over 4 years ago
it seems like certain factions of our government decry science as fake and hoax.. the marching morons.
Stephen Gilberg over 4 years ago
Long term, yes, but it sure looks to me like tolerance has declined in the last few years.
Daeder over 4 years ago
Tolerance is endangered. Fascism is on the rise. Social decay is being accelerated from the highest ranks of “leadership”.