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Wonderful (a 1912 comic)
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this post was submitted on 03 Aug 2023
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What is this trying to convey?
That kids who grow up with new technologies are unphased and take them for granted, but marvel at old fashioned things that the elders grew up with and took for granted.
Funny how I was always marveled by new tech growing up. I consider it a blessing to have come up with the evolution of gaming basically from the roots. Every generation was a revelation.
The kid was just a baby when cars were invented. He didn't live through the transition, and probably never saw a cart pulled by an animal. The kid's parents, as seen in the first panel, did live through the transition from carriage to car, and presumably grew up with the animal driven vehicles.
So, when the kid sees a goat pulling a cart, this is a novel and new thing for him. But to the parents, it's like going back in time, a relic of the past, so they see no wonder in it, because it's something they've known about all their lives. They thus find the kid's wonderment puzzling - what is there to marvel at? Nothing new here.
Like the title says, things don't seem wonderful if you've seen them all yoir life.
Imbeciles are amazed by technology. The truly wise are amazed by dog.