Rooms for Debate
  • Esn
    August 21, 2012

    I like this.

    I’m not entirely sure that we want to go the full route on “small”. I read some proponents of “small” sometimes (like Dmitri Orlov) and they can sound like their ideal human society is one where we’re no different from animals, throwing aside quaint notions like exploration and progress. What is there to live for if there is no horizon?

  • Richard
    August 21, 2012

    Surely horizons are a tad 19th century?

  • Cloud
    August 21, 2012

    Esn: Some primitivists certainly have that view — pretty sure Orlov is not among them.

    No fear; in the future there will still be music and chess and sailboats and poetry and fashion and thousands of other human things. Culture will still evolve and have ideals and motives. There just won’t be things like jumbo jets and golf courses in the desert.

  • Erika
    August 21, 2012

    Both their flags in panel one are surrender flags.

    Perhaps they’re saying don’t go big or small– either extreme will end with you having to surrender.

  • Roberta Mann
    August 21, 2012

    If you’ve never been in a Smart 4 Two on a highway surrounded by SUVs you’re missing out on a Funhouse Ride of Terror.

  • Sev
    August 21, 2012

    I’m voting for the “just right” party this November. Goldilocks 2012!

  • Tom Falco
    August 21, 2012

    Keep the small sign, just get a big magnifying glass.

  • jabez
    August 21, 2012

    So what the beardo really means is that medium is the message.

  • Bill Freese
    August 22, 2012

    I need more room for all my little stuff.

  • Brian
    August 22, 2012

    Let’s hear it for Cat! No longer are we, as modern people in a first world country, stuck with the false dichotomy of having to go big or go home.

  • Sev
    August 23, 2012

    I like home.

  • leoboiko
    August 23, 2012

    Richard: but that’s exactly what’s great about them! Striving for progress and the betterment of humankind is utterly retro-cool!

  • Golux
    October 21, 2013

    It’s no fun wearing a parka all winter because your house is so large you can no longer afford to heat it in winter. Those cathedral ceilings allow you to relive the cold misery of the medieval castle with a lot less drafts. I like my cozy smaller house.

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