Infantalization. The process of making more and more parent-funded education mandatory, to include all unpaid ‘internships,’ and every phase of life that doesn’t include earning one’s keep, hewing to one’s spouse, and raising one’s children – not, as the middle class will have it, delaying commitment and having children, or as the underclass will have it, failing at commitment and passing children off to grandparents.
You are your actions, not your thoughts. And your words sit on the dividing line nicely.
JJChoi I think I’m going through the middle class process of infantilization. Delaying an honest beginning to life until as late as possible. Then wondering why anyone didn’t tell me earlier that I should really have stuff figured out by now. Partly it’s because education is an arms race. University in Britain is no longer elitist, it’s effectively mandatory. Although, in truth, being determined and good are far better attributes to possess than a degree. You are not your quantifiable achievements.
Luckily for all involved, I don’t plan to ever have children.
But you are NOT ONLY all that things.
I agree with Steve Roberts in the importance of actions, not in the non-importance of thoughts. It´s just a big personality soup.
The impossibillity of totality.
(sorry if I have ortograph problems, not my field, the english language)
Sometimes I feel like my possessions own me, rather than the other way around. If that’s the case, my toy collection, DVD collection, iMac, clothes, creative projects and two old amigas are all David Thomsen.
I don’t think this sofa is David Thomsen though. We just live together.
JJChoi is probably against gay marriage and I would lay odds that he is catholic or mormon. Not 100% sure, but rhetoric like that has its own peculiar smell.
One thing that I am entirely certain of is that we should be worried about the children he is raising..
Isaac: wrong on both religious guesses, thanks for trying. You put me in interesting company in your mind. How’s growing up working out? Don’t fret, other people are working very hard to make the world comfortable for you.
About “how’s the growing up thing going”, adolts are always stunned by articulate comeback, so something like “in every case it goes to hell but I’m still oddly optimistic” or “you tell me… oh wait” would
be interesting. There does exist the hazard of other-identifying tho: when they laugh it off, does that mean you’re one of Them?
Cat never seems to have quandaries like that. And it’s not always completely obvious why, for some reason…
“Kids today: forced to grow up so slow.” So sly, so wry. One has to have had close-up and personal experience with the alternative to appreciate this in all its subtlety.
“Growing up slowly” isn’t that different from the 19th Century social movement to prohibit child labor. Many parents believed that children should be protected, nurtured, and educated for a while, rather than being pressed into labor as soon as they could swing an axe or work an assembly line. This wasn’t always an option, especially for the lower class, but ultimately it’s just a question of sacrificing a portion of your income now in the hopes of a better life later.
Smug concerned troll is smug. We’ve been lucky so far here at C&G comments section but don’t feed the trolls people. They have the stupid virus and it can be textually transmitted.
I’ve just been reminded that my sentiment earlier about my possessions owning me was borrowed from Fight Club. I was only subconsciously aware of this and want to apologise for seeming to present it as a new idea.
Right about the gay marriage bit, though, wasn’t I?
I’ve also probably done more manual labor in my life than you have, statistically speaking, and have been poorer, for longer. But maybe we can be friends anyway.
August 10, 2010
I always appreciate that these strips are funny along the way, i.e. you don’t have to hang out for the last panel for the yuks. Good times.
August 10, 2010
Isn’t defining yourself at all something of an illogical move?
August 10, 2010
Infantalization. The process of making more and more parent-funded education mandatory, to include all unpaid ‘internships,’ and every phase of life that doesn’t include earning one’s keep, hewing to one’s spouse, and raising one’s children – not, as the middle class will have it, delaying commitment and having children, or as the underclass will have it, failing at commitment and passing children off to grandparents.
August 10, 2010
I am the comics I read.
Or is that plagiarism?
August 10, 2010
You are your actions, not your thoughts. And your words sit on the dividing line nicely.
JJChoi I think I’m going through the middle class process of infantilization. Delaying an honest beginning to life until as late as possible. Then wondering why anyone didn’t tell me earlier that I should really have stuff figured out by now. Partly it’s because education is an arms race. University in Britain is no longer elitist, it’s effectively mandatory. Although, in truth, being determined and good are far better attributes to possess than a degree. You are not your quantifiable achievements.
Luckily for all involved, I don’t plan to ever have children.
August 10, 2010
I am what my friends wear!?! Man, I’m a slob.
August 10, 2010
I am the sum total of my USENET posting defending the amiga.
August 10, 2010
But you are NOT ONLY all that things.
I agree with Steve Roberts in the importance of actions, not in the non-importance of thoughts. It´s just a big personality soup.
The impossibillity of totality.
(sorry if I have ortograph problems, not my field, the english language)
August 10, 2010
Sometimes I feel like my possessions own me, rather than the other way around. If that’s the case, my toy collection, DVD collection, iMac, clothes, creative projects and two old amigas are all David Thomsen.
I don’t think this sofa is David Thomsen though. We just live together.
August 11, 2010
You are the clothes your friends wear. So true.
August 11, 2010
JJChoi is probably against gay marriage and I would lay odds that he is catholic or mormon. Not 100% sure, but rhetoric like that has its own peculiar smell.
One thing that I am entirely certain of is that we should be worried about the children he is raising..
August 11, 2010
Love the last panel. Love it.
August 11, 2010
Isaac: wrong on both religious guesses, thanks for trying. You put me in interesting company in your mind. How’s growing up working out? Don’t fret, other people are working very hard to make the world comfortable for you.
August 11, 2010
Playgiarism: copying one’s identity from one’s playthings (without appropriate attribution).
August 11, 2010
About “how’s the growing up thing going”, adolts are always stunned by articulate comeback, so something like “in every case it goes to hell but I’m still oddly optimistic” or “you tell me… oh wait” would
be interesting. There does exist the hazard of other-identifying tho: when they laugh it off, does that mean you’re one of Them?
Cat never seems to have quandaries like that. And it’s not always completely obvious why, for some reason…
August 11, 2010
“Kids today: forced to grow up so slow.” So sly, so wry. One has to have had close-up and personal experience with the alternative to appreciate this in all its subtlety.
August 11, 2010
“Growing up slowly” isn’t that different from the 19th Century social movement to prohibit child labor. Many parents believed that children should be protected, nurtured, and educated for a while, rather than being pressed into labor as soon as they could swing an axe or work an assembly line. This wasn’t always an option, especially for the lower class, but ultimately it’s just a question of sacrificing a portion of your income now in the hopes of a better life later.
August 11, 2010
Smug concerned troll is smug. We’ve been lucky so far here at C&G comments section but don’t feed the trolls people. They have the stupid virus and it can be textually transmitted.
August 11, 2010
There are no photographs of me at parties. Who can I be? o.o
August 12, 2010
Where is the title?!
I have no way to define or refer to this comic among C&G comics except by its content! How awful!
August 12, 2010
/me hands athom a cookie
August 14, 2010
@sphinx:
Pop Culture Refereces About Pop Culture References
(sic)
because the title has always matched the alt text, as far as I know
August 17, 2010
I’ve just been reminded that my sentiment earlier about my possessions owning me was borrowed from Fight Club. I was only subconsciously aware of this and want to apologise for seeming to present it as a new idea.
August 18, 2010
Right about the gay marriage bit, though, wasn’t I?
I’ve also probably done more manual labor in my life than you have, statistically speaking, and have been poorer, for longer. But maybe we can be friends anyway.
September 4, 2010
uhh. is anyone else going to mention fight club?
September 4, 2010
oops, finally i see above. took awhile lol
September 13, 2010
people are arguing in the comments page. i don’t know why that frightens me, but it does.
November 16, 2010
I am the comic strips I read online when I should be working. I am the t shirts I buy on impulse because they’re going, going…
April 13, 2011
I never comment, but just wanted to say that this is my favorite Cat And Girl.
April 20, 2012
Girl doesn’t grow up at all.
July 10, 2013
This is why I wear Khakis, because at least I’m not those.