What’s bizarre is the smile of the guy at the wheel. I mean I get it but it’s still surreal.
What’s bizarre is that your focus snapped to the body language and emotions of this sketched character instead of the main idea of the comic. I don’t mean to be judgmental at all, it’s just an observation and an interest of mine. Can you tell me a bit more about your flow of consciousness when you first looked at the image?
First thing I see is face and then unhappy and happy states?, feel it kinda though not exactly. I look at the smile and I somewhat feel it too.
When I look at a picture of a smile I get a brief glimpse of my happy moments in life. I can feel the green grass and trees and family for a split second.
Neat. It’s like your mind sees a lot of emotional subtext when that meaning is not necessarily there, at least in a comic. I’m sure you look at things in life in the same way, except your point of view is much more useful and practical there, given that subtext is king in reality.
There should be some type of new art form or art genre that seeks to replicate this juxtaposition of happiness and environment, which creates feelings of the surreal.
I sometimes wonder how pure and positive cartoon characters would react to our world. What would be their daily routine?
I see what you mean about framing given the context. Mental health is too important to waste it worrying about things mostly out of our control. Maybe comic guy is just trying to take a day off from frowning? Haha
Little side excerpt here: I’ve been meeting a lot more people like you lately. People that connect highly emotionally with media content (you), and also react highly emotionally with other people (in the case of the people I know). This is in stark contrast to myself and other people I know who are jaded to this type of experience and only seem to “feel” stuff in an indirect way, or a culturally coded way in order to protect their mind from potential trauma. I believe that’s called an avoidant personality or something. Reading your original comment just helps me to open my mind to new ways of being and experiencing when all I’m used to is what I’ve already encoded in my behavior from others. Anyway, thanks for the insight!
It’s weird but I swear I was more like you a month ago. Not sure what changed but something unlocked from psychedelics maybe.
I had this really long period of trying to tell what’s wrong with me and then very lately I feel comfort and no questions, calm. It’s me.
I also quit Reddit hm, and use Lemmy with no scores to curb addiction
Hmm, psychedelics are truly mysterious. I find that they can lead to some permanent “more abstract thinking” than usual. I read this article once that attempted to answer the question of why early psychedelic proponents and researchers were so “weird” as the article put it. Have you read it? I’m glad you feel different. I feel like I’m in a transition phase (hopefully).
When people around here mentioned there are no more insects on the wind screens of car a local biologists checked the number of insects - and it was more or less the same (~5% less)
But what he found out was pretty interesting: Nowadays insects avoid streets. Evolution seems to have breed an inherent fear of streets into insects.
I’ll believe you without questioning or researching myself because that would be a very comforting thought indeed
You would believe it if you saw the mosquito swarms in my garden. The quite busy street basically is a biological desert. One meter off road in my garden I have a HUGE swarm of mosquitoes every evening. Not just one or two, more like 100, all in one big flock, within 1-2m³. And as soon as I leave the house they are all over me. Only way to get rid of them: Walk to the street or get back into the house. Dusk-Time is Mosquito Time in my garden. No humans allowed.
Huge ones I bet are: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crane_fly
I’m old enough to remember. The most unsettling thing about it is that all the other people old enough to remember it as well seems perfectly settled about it.
It was fucking annoying.
I’m really sorry our ecosphere interfered with you enjoying your pointless consumerism.
Right, the pointless consumerism of hiking on a trail made freely available thanks to the state’s parks and rec and my taxpayer money. That consumerism. The selfish capitalistic urge to be outside more than an hour without needing to apply bug deterrent three times just so I can sit on my lawn in peace.
Ok boomer.
It brings me an odd feeling of comfort and joy to realize that in a couple decades, I might be even less exposed to such untenable individuals as:
- social media will be dead
- society may just collapse and natural selection will do it’s bidding
Have a pleasant day
and natural selection will do it’s bidding
Then I guess you won’t be around for long, eh?
“That is yet to be seen” ~ Dale Gribble
Can’t remember the last time I saw a banana slug or any other large varieties. Used to see them all the time in the PNW.
I used to drive to McDonalds and my car would be covered in banana slugs by the time I got back.
Now my cat Dexter looks at me while I eat my ice cream and big macs and all I can say is “sorry buddy, nothing for you this time”
Where in the PNW? I still see them on trails north of King county in the suburbs. Not disagreeing with the message behind the original post but those slugs surprised me when I moved here from the Midwest and they’re still around.
Western Washington. I used to go to a number of parks along the sound and see tons of slugs all the time. I know they aren’t completely gone, but I can’t even remember the last time I’ve seen one now.
