Some background on this comic:
I mean, I have never had the thought “dogs don’t visit psychiatrists,” but I also subconsciously internalize the rules of whatever world I’m suspending disbelief in. If dogs are talking and spending money in capitalism in this world, why the hell wouldn’t they also seek therapy?
And Gary seems like no matter what arbitrary world is created, he thinks about it in terms of this world we live in, seemingly an inability to suspend disbelief, and then somehow conjectures the world anyway.
This clash of concepts and reasoning amounted to Cow Tools, in the end.
Speaking of cow tools, next time it comes up in this community, he wrote a bit about the comic and the public response it got that I’ll have to post.
Yup, he’s doublethinking the suspension of disbelief again:
The cartoon was intended to be an exercise in silliness. While I have never met a cow who could make tools, I felt sure that if I did, they (the tools) would lack something in sophistication and resemble the sorry specimens shown in this cartoon.
