I’m not sure I share Girl’s concern here. IQs are gradually rising, the mainstream is focussing more and more on porn vampires, comedy zombies and children’s toys dragged forward into a gritty new age. In fact, I think toys and video games from the 80s and 90s are being exploited because nostalgia is the only thing that’s going to get the jaded demographic who grew up during that period into the cinema. It doesn’t have anything else to offer them any more.
Why would anyone choose to be other, when they can be part of something? Because something sucks. That seems like a more honest answer than Girl’s.
On the other hand, I may be completely missing the point, which is very likely, given the nature of Cat and Girl.
How can you even say the mainstream is deteriorating when there are still plenty of bumbling idiots doing whatever the media tells them to? True, subculture and individuality in general is becoming noticed, but even then there are common denominators (i.e. memes, txt lingo, and the like). And besides, even if one culture ceases to be the mainstream, then won’t another, larger one simply take it’s place?
Like David said, I also might totally be missing the point. Cat and Girl is a most mystifying comic. Also, I have no idea what “the smoke” refers to.
Queerly, the infection seems always to be encoded into the warning. I mean, there’s a reason “high-fructose corn syrup” isn’t labeled “sugary profit-enhancing substance No.1” by the FDA.
June 22, 2010
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June 22, 2010
The last two lines are too true.
June 22, 2010
“Soon all we’ll have in common is Lady Gaga and Diabetes.”
That is absolute truth!
June 22, 2010
I’m not sure I share Girl’s concern here. IQs are gradually rising, the mainstream is focussing more and more on porn vampires, comedy zombies and children’s toys dragged forward into a gritty new age. In fact, I think toys and video games from the 80s and 90s are being exploited because nostalgia is the only thing that’s going to get the jaded demographic who grew up during that period into the cinema. It doesn’t have anything else to offer them any more.
Why would anyone choose to be other, when they can be part of something? Because something sucks. That seems like a more honest answer than Girl’s.
On the other hand, I may be completely missing the point, which is very likely, given the nature of Cat and Girl.
June 23, 2010
How can you even say the mainstream is deteriorating when there are still plenty of bumbling idiots doing whatever the media tells them to? True, subculture and individuality in general is becoming noticed, but even then there are common denominators (i.e. memes, txt lingo, and the like). And besides, even if one culture ceases to be the mainstream, then won’t another, larger one simply take it’s place?
Like David said, I also might totally be missing the point. Cat and Girl is a most mystifying comic. Also, I have no idea what “the smoke” refers to.
June 23, 2010
This. Is. So. Good.
June 23, 2010
im hoping this trend doesnt stop.
June 23, 2010
subculture has been becoming mainstream since the beat generation
June 23, 2010
Queerly, the infection seems always to be encoded into the warning. I mean, there’s a reason “high-fructose corn syrup” isn’t labeled “sugary profit-enhancing substance No.1” by the FDA.
June 24, 2010
Sugary successful-by-subsidizing environmental wreck No. 1?