Aw, cat and girl seem so happy in the last frame! I am a huge fan of this webcomic on every level, and I love the general tone, but even my hardened heart is melted slightly at the thought of girl’s cynicism even briefly soothed…
True. A thousand years old, and you’d be prejudiced against nationalities that don’t even exist anymore. Reminds me of this Dinosaur Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1554
It’s a much better argument against immortality than the “it would get boring” one, which is really just sour grapes. Nobody knows what immortality would feel like, because nobody’s ever tried it. Sure, old people get tired of life sometimes, but their bodies are falling apart; of course they’re tired. And if people really believed they wouldn’t enjoy being immortal, then they wouldn’t want to go to heaven.
That said, heaven is probably full of racists too, which I think reminds me of another Dinosaur Comic.
Ah, but those individual bubbles of self-perception, when combined, can create a much more accurate, singular memory bubble! It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we can do.
there is a certain point of age where racism becomes cute. like if a 100 year old says something racist it becomes like “awwww, grandpa is so racist i just want to pinch his cheeks! he thinks his archiac viewpoints are still relevent! lets dangle some keys over his head and see if we can get him to make cute noises!”
November 30, 2010
Cat’s just happy he can use the car pool lane.
November 30, 2010
Aw, cat and girl seem so happy in the last frame! I am a huge fan of this webcomic on every level, and I love the general tone, but even my hardened heart is melted slightly at the thought of girl’s cynicism even briefly soothed…
November 30, 2010
I like the last panel.
November 30, 2010
True. A thousand years old, and you’d be prejudiced against nationalities that don’t even exist anymore. Reminds me of this Dinosaur Comic: http://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=1554
It’s a much better argument against immortality than the “it would get boring” one, which is really just sour grapes. Nobody knows what immortality would feel like, because nobody’s ever tried it. Sure, old people get tired of life sometimes, but their bodies are falling apart; of course they’re tired. And if people really believed they wouldn’t enjoy being immortal, then they wouldn’t want to go to heaven.
That said, heaven is probably full of racists too, which I think reminds me of another Dinosaur Comic.
November 30, 2010
I think I’m going to quote that third panel in my paper on the relationship between the self and the other (or otter).
November 30, 2010
Ah, but those individual bubbles of self-perception, when combined, can create a much more accurate, singular memory bubble! It’s not perfect, but it’s the best we can do.
November 30, 2010
also, ‘bubbles’ sounds a lot more friendly than ‘prisons’
November 30, 2010
It’s the process of combination that gets tricky.
OR we could all race around crashing into each other!
November 30, 2010
Memory is so unreliable, though.
November 30, 2010
I say the subjectivity of memory is UNJUST! Where do I go to protest it?
November 30, 2010
This is the best comic ever. “think of all the weird kinds of racist you would be”
I don’t like my perception can i borrow yours?
November 30, 2010
Just because the cat says something doesn’t make it so. The only thing it does reliably is to make it weird.
August 9, 2011
there is a certain point of age where racism becomes cute. like if a 100 year old says something racist it becomes like “awwww, grandpa is so racist i just want to pinch his cheeks! he thinks his archiac viewpoints are still relevent! lets dangle some keys over his head and see if we can get him to make cute noises!”