Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for October 17, 1993
Transcript:
Mike: (When to flee this sick violent city? Monday? Tuesday?...) J.J., Pat Moynihan was right - it's frightening how high the pain threshold has gotten in the city! A couple generations ago, so people a year were killed in New York. Now it's close to 2,000. If that rise is violence had happened all at once, the city would have emptied out. But since it was gradual, we've simply adapted, constantly recalibrating the acceptable level of risk and stress...so the quality of life grows coarser and coarser, and we evolve into this race of benumbed survivors, utterly resigned to the irreversible slide into total chaos. Sigh. J.J.: (Here comes the farm.) Mike: So what would you think of moving to Mom's farm?