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.
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.
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.
I saw someone defending ecology under a post that could be seen as ridiculing it so my brain went all white knight towards what seemed to me like a pedant dick… But turns out I was the dick.
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.
Then they stated themselves poorly with
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.
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.
I saw someone defending ecology under a post that could be seen as ridiculing it so my brain went all white knight towards what seemed to me like a pedant dick… But turns out I was the dick.