The Angriest Dog in the World
Earlier this week I was alerted to the existence of this comic created by David Lynch and published in a number of independent newspapers in the U.S. during the 80s and 90s. The Angriest Dog in the World comic strip always features the same four frames depicting a weird looking dog in a backyard and speech bubbles containing overheard conversations from inside the house. (Click on the image for a link.)
This particular strip speaks to our current state of uncertainty and our inability to objectively appraise our experience of reality.
It suggests the postmodern rejection of objectivity, the impossibility of black and white explanations for the situations we experience. In imagining the future we are actually highlighting our present hopes, desires, fears and morality, but we are also experiencing the breakdown of these assumptions, like Schroedinger’s Cat, at any given moment, truth and reality are in flux.