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Time Travel Tourism (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 1 day ago by kavarski@sh.itjust.works to c/comicstrips@lemmy.world

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[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The point the comic is trying to make is that things were not better in the past, right?

That's a pretty broad take that is obviously full of holes.

Pretty sure no whoosh happened here and the person you're replying to was just pointing at one of those holes.

[–] lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.com 1 points 19 hours ago (1 children)

The point the comic

Sort of: I thought it was mocking the superficiality of a golden age fallacy that romanticizes the past & advocates restoring it while devaluing & squandering all the hardships we solved with our unprecedented standard of living.

While the unsustainability of expending more resources than the planet can regenerate is a problem, that's not necessarily the meaning of "losing our connection with nature". We could start living sustainably while remaining as disconnected.

Pretty sure no whoosh happened here

Then they stated themselves poorly with

The last panel has a point though.

The panel satirizes the time traveler's comment, so the panel's point is to undermine that comment. Either we have to assume they expressed themselves ineptly & meant something else, or they know how to express themselves & misinterpreted the panel. Not sound either way.

Excluding that statement entirely would have made more sense, but we aren't mind readers.

[–] MacAnus@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 hours ago

Thanks for a well thought, well written answer!

I guess I missed the point of the comic a bit...

I think you're right, they either expressed themselves wrong or misinterpreted the panel.

So, for this I guess there was whoosh! My bad.

I should've thought some more before replying to you.
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