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This can be taken to mean that staying emotionally undeveloped is not accidental, but a habit that culture can reward. It reads as a critique of people who prefer comfort, irony, or playacting over responsibility, especially in a setting that celebrates immaturity. It lands when someone keeps dodging adulthood and gets praised for seeming easygoing instead of being asked to grow up.
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About Michael Leunig
Australian cartoonist, poet and artist
Michael Leunig, known professionally as Leunig, was an Australian cartoonist, poet, and artist. He became widely known for his work in Melbourne’s The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald. Leunig’s work brought together cartooning, poetry, and visual art, and those newspaper contributions made him familiar to a broad Australian readership. His public voice was shaped by that blend of image and language, which is why his name remains closely associated with those papers and with his distinctive artistic output.
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