Commentary from February 18, 2014
I’m not sure how to feel about this strip now that I’ve done it. What the reporter says in the last panel is something that I’ve had in my head for a while, but I was looking for a strip to get it out in. But the last panel does seem awkward and forced, and I’m just going to have to accept that.
This strip is quite different because I’m not actually focusing on the experience of depression but rather looking at the larger world around us and trying to determine if the world has a self-vested interest in keeping people unhappy. I understand I’m making a big jump here, especially in the first two panels, but there’s no doubt that unhappy people make better consumers and keep the capitalist gears moving.
This is the first appearance of Media (the reporter). He was initially conceived along with Society, but never appeared until now.
This strip is quite different because I’m not actually focusing on the experience of depression but rather looking at the larger world around us and trying to determine if the world has a self-vested interest in keeping people unhappy. I understand I’m making a big jump here, especially in the first two panels, but there’s no doubt that unhappy people make better consumers and keep the capitalist gears moving.
This is the first appearance of Media (the reporter). He was initially conceived along with Society, but never appeared until now.
Sounds like the script for Network
Appropriate and accurate referencing, in an internet cartoon?!
Robert Matthew I’m a psychology major, APA was drummed into me
No wonder you’re depressed!!! (just kidding)(sort of)
I saw another comic once (sorry, I don’t remember which one, might have been Non Sequitur) where the main character’s key to happiness was to turn off the TV news… I find it sad that people legitimately feel that happiness is so bad for success.
My faith actually lifts me out of my darkest moments and fills me with hope- not guilt or fear. I don’t think it’s fair or right to show religion’s bad side without its good side too. If it weren’t for God and my renewal in Him, I wouldn’t have made it to my middle 30s alive.
As much harm as religion has honestly done, we really forget about the good it does, too. We lose something valuable when we cut faith and spirituality out of our lives and also out of our resources for dealing with depression.
It’s a bit ironic that the media isn’t included among those who don’t want you to be happy. Talk radio, FOX News, and so many others built their empires on keeping people anxious and angry.
168 http://t.co/AyoPkoIEXh via @depressioncomix
“Do you want people to be happy?” http://t.co/nYRyOu1Gn2
The man should have called this “Wolves at the door.”