>>150028314
Watterson's writing style only felt fresh because it managed to breach the mainstream in a time when the internet and social media didn't exist. In the bubble of 80's american suburbia, it was very easy to believe the literally every normalfag in your town was some mindless zombie and that you were the sole super special ubermensch who could rise above it all and see the world for what it REALLY was.
But we don't live in that bubble anymore. Now we're painfully aware that EVERYONE thinks they're above the normalfags. EVERYONE thinks they can break the programming by just being cynical and miserable all the time. And we now have tangible proof that this mindset does not create people who bring real value to their communities or humanity as a whole. They really are no better than the "mindless normalfags" who "keep living the lie with fake smiles" that they've spent their whole lives looking down upon.