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I didn't really follow his point. After the first few it just seemed like random quotes. (e.g. We went from writing letters to marriage, without link.)
TL;DR. 😛
+Dorian Trent it's the things people say are different now than they were X years ago, particularly the things seen with rose-tinted glasses.
This includes the "sanctity of marriage"argument, based on these quotes.
+Dorian Trent You had to read the whole thing to get it.
A) The gist of everything said, on a variety of topics, is that "things are moving so fast now, that it threatens the very fabric of society. Things were so much better 100 year ago."
B) They all resemble things that we hear from the media today.
C) Those quotes were all written 100 years ago.
Two points on a downward slope could both say, truthfully, that the points before them were higher on the slope. No point is made with the comic. Randall is just trying to be snarky.
x>y>z.
My comment was two-fold. Since many of the quotes had to do with lack of society's willingness to have patience, I figured the typical "TL;DR." would've been an appropriate sarcastic remark. However, it's not entirely sarcastic, because, to be honest, I didn't actually read the entire comic since I figured it was written partially with the intention of not being read.
"…we think we are too busy for such old-fashioned correspondence. We fire off a multitude of rapid and short notes…"
"Intellectual laziness and the hurry of the age have produced a craving for literary nips."
"…the public must have an etched or a photogravured copy of it within a month or two of its appearance, the days when engravers were wont to spend two or three years over a single plate are for ever gone."
"…thirty pages is too much…"
"…further condensed by the daily papers…"
"…a summary of the summary…"