Comic #6542: punch

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Panel 1: Child: "Grandpa, I don't get it. How is it that we are so much richer and more knowledgeable than people 100 years ago, and yet all the time we’re busy and anxious and sad."

Panel 2: Old Man: "You can’t punch stuff anymore."

Panel 3: Old Man: "Two things used to be true. One, people generally knew how their devices worked. Two, most of the devices in life were large and stupid—hand tools, carts, chairs, stoves."

Panel 4: Old Man: "The result was that, when a machine wasn’t working, the solution was to beat it like it’d slept with your wife. Bash it with a hammer, jam a knife into it, pry it apart with an ax or a crowbar."

Panel 5: Old Man: "Today when your computer suddenly loses all your work, what do you do? Internalize the anger, eat it. If you do beat something, it’s an old technology like the table or wall, but you have to treat the actual source of the problem like royalty."

Panel 6: Old Man: "Surround yourself with shit that you can punch, my boy, and you will know peace."

Panel 7: Child: "Truly you are wise, grandfather."

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