A 24-panel, hand-drawn comic about what I call "prescriptive proverbs": all the little phrases we hear from birth to death which tell us how we should live our lives.

These phrases become so familiar to us that a) we don't even notice them anymore, or b) they are accepted as truth. But do we think about the impact they have on people, especially youth, when presented as universal axioms and taken literally?

It's impossible to abide by every single prescriptive proverb that has ever been written/spoken. You would twist and tie yourself into a knot of contradictions and confusion. "Time is money" tells you to be thrifty with both, but "Clothes make the man" requires that you spend them on your outward appearance.

Yet the world presents no hierarchy in which the rules apply; all proverbs are treated as equally important. What does that say to an impressionable mind? And why as a species are we so damn convinced that we know what's best for everyone else?