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.
Lmao you don’t live in a rural area huh
My drive to work is an hour so definitely not biking it.
My drive is 35 minutes, but all 55-60mph, so like 30 miles. I’m not biking that, it’s not even safe on these roads, no shoulders.
My outdoor bike doesn’t have snow tires
You should change that.
I don’t always listen to Jedi Mind Tricks, but when I do, I’m usually baking muffins for my my friends from AA to cheer them up.
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.
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.
Definitely true. I watched The Shawshank Redemption earlier this year and, while it was still a good movie, it didn’t have anywhere near the greatness that it did when I first watched it in the 90s.
IMDb lists it as a 9.3. But, currently, I wouldn’t put it above an 8.
It, like many movies that were also firsts and created many tropes and sub-tropes derived from them, often don’t hold up. That being said, sometimes, some do, for various reasons.
I remember one time, post 2020, I was really getting fed up with maga politics and the fucked up stuff going on, and I was diving into younger-people political protest music and cultural music, both to see and also because a lot of it is really good. I was compiling a playlist to be a product of its era, kind of. But then I remembered that there was a lot of 1960s civil rights movement punk, both pop and the real underground stuff, so I went and gave a bunch of that a listen.
And boyyyyy that stuff was DIFFERENT. A lot of it was really subtle and almost topical in comparison. You know, a lot of talk about “the man” and “they”. Compared to modern music talking about not wanting to get murdered in school by guns, it was wild to see the 1960s and 1970s music, which was obviously in extremely heated times, feel so…Tame.
Combined with differences in levels of subtext being popular or not in culture, it was a fascinating experience. Music has always been a way to express emotions, with coded tones and beats and stories and themes, etc… and seeing basically the same issues still here, but unfortunately progressed… Ugh. It really makes you wonder how and if we’re gonna make it, and maybe even what humanity will become.
I’m not without hope, but I’m also not without concern. We either repeat the lessons ourselves, or learn from books and culture and those that came before us, and learn faster with less error… Because the human lifespan is only currently so long. Fuck.
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.
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
no hotta
flow droppa
since poppa
Uprising, Muse.
Paul Ryan is that you?
So don’t resist or you might miss Christmas.
