This comic bothers me. First of all, like it’s already been stated, they’re not millennials. They are about 5 years too young. Secondly, if you were to be truthful about the time period on the left, you need to take 2 of them out of the picture because 95%+ of people lived to 18 in that time period (and most of human history). Thanks to technology and communication, we are living longer than ever. The same technology and communication that this panel is bashing. I don’t mean to imply cell phones are the reasons people are living longer, rather that technology and communicating caused both the destruction of diseases as well as cell phones. Third, they would all be considered full grown adults at that time (adolescents didn’t exist as a concept until much later) and probably have responsibilities that would keep them away from leisure like just sitting around a fire. The ladies would have babies to be putting to sleep, the men may be out for a 2 day trek to find a wild animal. Fourth, I’m not even sure there is conversation going on in the left column. It seems like they are all just living in those moments next to each other but not together, just like the ones on the right. Yet, somehow, the ones on the right are terrible for being on their phones and not be engaged, but it’s fine if someone is just sitting, not being engaged.
This comic bothers me. First of all, like it’s already been stated, they’re not millennials. They are about 5 years too young. Secondly, if you were to be truthful about the time period on the left, you need to take 2 of them out of the picture because 95%+ of people lived to 18 in that time period (and most of human history). Thanks to technology and communication, we are living longer than ever. The same technology and communication that this panel is bashing. I don’t mean to imply cell phones are the reasons people are living longer, rather that technology and communicating caused both the destruction of diseases as well as cell phones. Third, they would all be considered full grown adults at that time (adolescents didn’t exist as a concept until much later) and probably have responsibilities that would keep them away from leisure like just sitting around a fire. The ladies would have babies to be putting to sleep, the men may be out for a 2 day trek to find a wild animal. Fourth, I’m not even sure there is conversation going on in the left column. It seems like they are all just living in those moments next to each other but not together, just like the ones on the right. Yet, somehow, the ones on the right are terrible for being on their phones and not be engaged, but it’s fine if someone is just sitting, not being engaged.