Comments on: High art, low art (with Hi ironically being low)

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:45:06 +0000

RMMD I figured out the plot line! The patients “wander off” and the institution keeps billing Medicaid.
Insurance fraud!!!!!!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:26:57 +0000

I admit, I find the implications about Alzheimer’s patients very offensive. Yes, they wander. They will sometimes wander into traffic and get hit and killed by cars, or die due to exposure to the elements. Yes, they get confused about where they are and sometimes (often) think they are living a past life. It is called dementia for a reason…

Is the comic strip trying to implicitly condemn families of Alzheimer’s patients for not being with them 24/7? Are they berating the world because life can be difficult sometimes? Are they insisting that all Alzheimer’s patients can carry on with their previous lives as usual if only given the chance?

IF the patients are trying to “escape” abuse at this facility, that is something different, and should be addressed, but aside from the appalling “fact” that three people have wandered away (indicating severe negligence on the part of the staff), what point are they trying to make?

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 05:06:40 +0000

Did you mean “late capitalism” or perhaps “post-modernism?” We are not yet in the period of post capitalism, Josh.

By: Ktrout

Ktrout — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 21:17:14 +0000

#138, I’m glad I wasn’t the only one, I mentioned it during post #9. It really does sound like that.

By: annabanana

annabanana — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 18:28:20 +0000

Am I the only person here who thinks the line “I heard three Alzheimer’s patients walked off recently” sounds like the lead-in to a particularly tasteless joke?