Kids are violent because they ride bicycles on stuff that was made for 55mm wheels. After awhile of cruising around at half speed doing nothing, something’s gotta give.
This is right on the money! Physical exertion can fill part of the void that modern tedium has scooped out of our lives, but the element of physical danger is crucial to elevate our experience to the highest plane. That’s why I think I was obsessed with piercings and tattoos in my youth, we need to have challenges with serious consequences, like pain, to give our minds a problem worth solving. Skating, to me, is a meditation on the human experience as a whole, but I’m a strange bird indeed.
Cool cartoon. I do need to continue to wage some major freaking chemical warfare violence against microbes (species with as much claim to the environment as our own), but against ourselves and other “macro-species”- not so much….
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freezine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTv1Dmu5CYc
JakeAndAnnoy
….. walking the cow……
conahan
Carl
I prefer beating dead horses and punching donkeys.
JakeAndAnnoy
I spank the monkey, and flog the dolphin, and punch the kitty. Keeps me tired.
Gnarles Copinghagen
Doing my best to keep the animal tired.
JakeAndAnnoy
Children are violent because Man is violent. Man is violent because Animals are violent and we are all Animals.
Carl
Kids are violent because they ride bicycles on stuff that was made for 55mm wheels. After awhile of cruising around at half speed doing nothing, something’s gotta give.
brad
p.s. Carl Sagan also nailed this pretty well with an essay called “Monday Night Hunters”…
brad
keep it strange cri-crow….
cri_crow
This is right on the money! Physical exertion can fill part of the void that modern tedium has scooped out of our lives, but the element of physical danger is crucial to elevate our experience to the highest plane. That’s why I think I was obsessed with piercings and tattoos in my youth, we need to have challenges with serious consequences, like pain, to give our minds a problem worth solving. Skating, to me, is a meditation on the human experience as a whole, but I’m a strange bird indeed.
oms
Vicarious
brad
Cool cartoon. I do need to continue to wage some major freaking chemical warfare violence against microbes (species with as much claim to the environment as our own), but against ourselves and other “macro-species”- not so much….
talentlessquitter
Heyheey,not one but TWO Slayer songtitle-references here!