Comic Strips

13482 readers

3653 users here now

Comic Strips is a community for those who love comic stories.

The rules are simple:

The post can be a single image, an image gallery, or a link to a specific comic hosted on another site (the author's website, for instance).
The comic must be a complete story.
If it is an external link, it must be to a specific story, not to the root of the site.
You may post comics from others or your own.
If you are posting a comic of your own, a maximum of one per week is allowed (I know, your comics are great, but this rule helps avoid spam).
The comic can be in any language, but if it's not in English, OP must include an English translation in the post's 'body' field (note: you don't need to select a specific language when posting a comic).
Politeness.
Adult content is not allowed. This community aims to be fun for people of all ages.

Web of links

[email protected]: "I use Arch btw"
[email protected]: memes (you don't say!)

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

lawrence

610

I've been to so many countries! (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 4 days ago by [email protected] to c/comicstrips

42 comments fedilink hide all child comments

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] mrslt 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

This kind of comment is Plato's Cave exemplified.

As an American who has spent some time in multiple European countries, using Google maps and looking at online pictures is never going to replace the experience of actually travelling to these places and experiencing them with your own eyes and ears. It's never going to come close to actually sitting down and eating at local restaurants, trying out your language skills with the shop vendors, or chatting with the locals.

Digital images have a way of becoming "meme-ified" in a sense. You get used to seeing iconic imagery of places or things you've never actually experienced yourself. The brain lazily shortcuts this to "seen it". This is the kind of shit Magritte was warning us against with "The Treachery of Images". Yeah, anyone can look up Google images of the Leaning Tower of Pisa. But when you're actually there, breathing the air and seeing the real thing, experiencing every tilted marble step upward to a fantastic panorama of the Italian cityscape and countryside, you will understand everything that an image cannot show you. Anybody can look up a picture of the Sagrada Familia. I can never, ever replace the experience of stepping out of a Spanish taxi and being absolutely gobsmacked by how far I had to crane my head and body just to look at the entire structure from bottom to top.

You will never truly understand what you have not experienced without any intermediate filter.