anomie
Original: anomie on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Doctor (a woman in a white coat): I'm sorry, sir. Your organs all have anomie.
Panel 2:
Patient (a man with orange/red hair, Mister Howard): What?
Doctor: A distressed sense of normlessness provoked by the breakdown of old institutions.
Panel 3:
Doctor: Your organs feel they could once rely on you to deliver regular exercise, eight hours of sleep a night, and foods that look like they came from plants.
Panel 4:
Doctor: But, as it has become ever more clear that the oversight of the body is corrupt and shortsighted, they have given over from striving to going through the motions to ironic withdrawal.
Panel 5:
Doctor: They want to work, Mister Howard, to contribute to count. But they find themselves asking WHY — why should I —
Patient: Okay, I get it.
Panel 6:
Patient: I'll take up jogging if you remain silent during my next physical.
Doctor: And people say philosophy is useless!
Caption (below comic): This bonus comic brought to you by buyers of "Goonish". Go to soonishbook.com or click for more info.
Votey:
The doctor, off-panel (speech bubble): This extended session isn't covered by your insurance.
(The patient, the man with orange hair seen wearing round glasses, looks unamused / deadpan in close-up.)
Doctor (a woman in a white coat): I'm sorry, sir. Your organs all have anomie.
Panel 2:
Patient (a man with orange/red hair, Mister Howard): What?
Doctor: A distressed sense of normlessness provoked by the breakdown of old institutions.
Panel 3:
Doctor: Your organs feel they could once rely on you to deliver regular exercise, eight hours of sleep a night, and foods that look like they came from plants.
Panel 4:
Doctor: But, as it has become ever more clear that the oversight of the body is corrupt and shortsighted, they have given over from striving to going through the motions to ironic withdrawal.
Panel 5:
Doctor: They want to work, Mister Howard, to contribute to count. But they find themselves asking WHY — why should I —
Patient: Okay, I get it.
Panel 6:
Patient: I'll take up jogging if you remain silent during my next physical.
Doctor: And people say philosophy is useless!
Caption (below comic): This bonus comic brought to you by buyers of "Goonish". Go to soonishbook.com or click for more info.
Votey:
The doctor, off-panel (speech bubble): This extended session isn't covered by your insurance.
(The patient, the man with orange hair seen wearing round glasses, looks unamused / deadpan in close-up.)
Alt text
A six-panel comic at a doctor's office. A woman doctor in a white coat tells her patient, a man with orange hair: "I'm sorry, sir. Your organs all have anomie." He asks "What?" and she explains it as "a distressed sense of normlessness provoked by the breakdown of old institutions." She continues: his organs once relied on him for regular exercise, eight hours of sleep, and foods that look like they came from plants, but since the body's oversight has proven corrupt and shortsighted, the organs have gone from striving, to going through the motions, to ironic withdrawal. "They want to work, Mister Howard, to contribute, to count. But they find themselves asking WHY—" The patient cuts her off: "Okay, I get it. I'll take up jogging if you remain silent during my next physical." The doctor replies cheerfully, "And people say philosophy is useless!" A caption notes this bonus comic is brought to you by buyers of "Goonish" (soonishbook.com). In the votey, a close-up of the deadpan, round-glasses-wearing patient as the doctor adds from off-panel: "This extended session isn't covered by your insurance."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.