You really just rode a fake bike for a while than drove a car to work. I know it’s not the point of this comic but what the hell.
My outdoor bike doesn’t have snow tires
You should change that.
Comics for people too stiff to watch office space
Office Space came out in 1999. There are people already planning their mid life crisis right now who haven’t seen it.
:(
I have a younger friend who both was born after the matrix came out, and still hasn’t seen it and only says he will just to say he has seen it
Like this is weird to me, as a millennial. When did young people suddenly become so anti anything they consider old? Is it the toxic internet gen z culture? Gotta set yourselves apart, now that the internet is established?
Like, imagine if we decided that books older than five or ten years were suddenly not worth reading, or that art older than that wasn’t worth looking at. Imagine the level of ignorance and hollow ego that would bring.
Like, imagine if we decided that books older than five or ten years were suddenly not worth reading
I can’t even get anyone I know to try reading Hail Mary before watching the inevitably less satisfying movie, and these are educated people who like science fiction, and the book was written exactly for today’s readers with shorter chapters.
Rates are falling, the book may go the way of the radio. Not gone, just not shaping society like it used to.
https://www.arts.gov/stories/blog/2024/federal-data-reading-pleasure-all-signs-show-slump
Welcome to getting old in the new millenium, where the things you loved are still kept fresh and can be still seen all over the internet, yet they are still… inextricably, old. I do not know what the next generation’s idea will be of intellectual development, but if it follows the patterns of history, likely we will hate it. With a deep, burning fire in our aching bones.
Language changes. Culture changes. Some things stick around as long as they need to, others don’t stick around for long enough.
I’m coincidentally listening to Beethoven’s symphony no 9, recorded in 1970, long before I was born. Admittedly, I don’t understand German, nor can I follow all the intricacies of the writing and performance, I just wanted to listen to the most legit version of Ode To Joy I could find and love the Decca Phase 4 Stereo recordings.
I have hope for the future, but I also think that society will fracture infinitely, and that’s kind of beautiful - like the universe expanding and contracting over and over, we observe patterns at all levels in nature. We are but somewhat non self aware observers, participants along for the ride.
IDK, I was in high school when the Matrix came out and I loved it, but I’ve found that a lot of excellent movies were products of their time and don’t hit quite as hard if you watch them for the first time a decade or two later.
for context to your question about “what if we didnt read anything older than a couple years”…well…most americans don’t read even a single book a year after leaving school
Real tragedy.
Can’t talk to my mutha, so I talk to ma diaaary
Me listening to clipse on my way to my desk job
Uprising, Muse.
no hotta
flow droppa
since poppa
Paul Ryan is that you?
So don’t resist or you might miss Christmas.
