Doomed to discard
on August 11, 2013 at 12:01 amAhh, I remember those years when new knowledge was a threatening thing. Again, a theme I’ve been hitting harder in Dumbing of Age.
Ahh, I remember those years when new knowledge was a threatening thing. Again, a theme I’ve been hitting harder in Dumbing of Age.
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“But don’t worry, Sarah. I’m sure I’ll neeeeeeever have a sudden change in my world view.”
In seven years she will be able to handle Dinosaur Feathers.
Hopefully her bin of factual scientific information to discard will grow smaller and smaller!
OH THE HORROR! 😛
The idea of my beliefs changing in seven years time hits me a little harder than I’d like. ._.
It doesn’t apply to me though, I already know everything.
Same here, I’ve got everything nailed down perfectly.
Not like seven-years-ago-me. That guy was an idiot.
Remember fourteen years ago me? I know for a FACT that he could barely multiply.
Actually, I think I managed to come back around to me 14 years ago…
You’ll feel ok about it… in 7 years.
Joyce’s biggest hangup here is that if her ideas can evolve, then other things can as well.
Like monkeys.
Or Charmander. She’s REALLY attached to it staying the same forever.
Well, come on. Charmander turned into a jerk when he evolved.
And then he became a jerk with wings. But then Ash nursed him back to health for hours in the Orange Islands, so then they became super best friends. And then they had to write him out of the show because he was too powerful.
I tried to be open to new ideas, but I think I overshot into apathy.
I think the funniest part of this is the idea that a person’s values change COMPLETELY every 7 years. Like in 7 years, I will suddenly be the exact opposite of who I am now, instead of having modified values based on new information and knowledge. Silly Joyce!
That said, I definitely look back at who I was 21 years ago and want to throttle her. Same values, but man was I annoying about them!
My favorite thing about this is Sarah’s face in the second panel. “Death. Death is our only release.”
Backwards Foreshadowing, COMMENCE!
13 year old me thought that only bitchy girls wore makeup, intentionally wore ugly, unflattering clothes and swore never to touch alcohol…oh how things change.
Reminds me of myself, if I was a teen girl. *chugs moonshine*
I think it’s safe to say seven-years-ago me would be nigh-unrecognisable.
But
I
was
eleven.
Same here. Sad to say, Danny honestly reminds me of myself back then with the holier-than-thou thing… At least I mostly got out of that phase by midway through high school…
Originally posted:
May 12, 2005