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Oct. 21st, 2013 01:15 pmMan, I seriously dislike the Zen Pencils stuff.
It's all positive-thinking oversimplification; just jump off the cliff, and the world will provide a pile of mattresses to land in. The inspiring statements of people who've never been poor, never been a minority, never had only their own paycheck to depend on, never known what it's like to have that next step be really really bad if you don't luck out.
And suggesting that if you jump off the cliff you'll easily make the other side, doesn't just dismiss the possibility that jumping could prove fatal - it also dismisses the possibility that you could ever carefully climb down the cliff and climb back up the other side. Optimism is about making plans, too.
It's all positive-thinking oversimplification; just jump off the cliff, and the world will provide a pile of mattresses to land in. The inspiring statements of people who've never been poor, never been a minority, never had only their own paycheck to depend on, never known what it's like to have that next step be really really bad if you don't luck out.
And suggesting that if you jump off the cliff you'll easily make the other side, doesn't just dismiss the possibility that jumping could prove fatal - it also dismisses the possibility that you could ever carefully climb down the cliff and climb back up the other side. Optimism is about making plans, too.