Calvin and Hobbes - 1993

[Malmsy]

[The Unmitigated Gall]

1. Classic.

[WestMichRad]

2. That is an excellent cartoon!

A sought after skill, by many politicians, seems to be the ability to spew word salad on a topic in the most authoritative, convincing manner.

Not naming names, but we know too many public figures of this type.

[rsdsharp]

3. That's why PhD stands for: Piled Higher and Deeper.

[Auggie]

4. LOL

Thanks for sharing. I hadn’t heard that before.

[SeattleVet]

5. It's just a part of the natural progression...

You start with your BS, and we all know what that means.

Many then go on to receive an MS (More of the Same).

Then the pinnacle of the PhD, which was just defined as "Piled Higher and Deeper".

[Auggie]

8. Love it!

[Volaris]

10. I had an ethics professor who wrote his dissertation on he logicly proved the existence of God.

His premise was yes there actually IS a ghost in that machine, and I spent the entire semester being a pain in his ass (as a bio/healthcare major I fucking well know better lol).

[Bluepinky]

13. BS - bull shit, MS - more shit, PhD - piled higher and deeper

[mopinko]

14. you learn more and more about less and less until you know everything about nothing.

[Bluepinky]

15. Ha ha!

[keithbvadu2]

6. Now we wait to see what AI does with it.

[sakabatou]

7. C&H is STILL my favorite comic!

[area51]

9. +1 n/t

[KY_EnviroGuy]

16. 50/50 for me with Gary Larson.

Still have all my original cartoon books for both......

Yes, at least my two adult kids will inherit something of value.......

[Hortensis]

11. Thanks! I'm sending this blast from the past to a teen grandson

who unaccountably still hasn't learned not to turn writing molehills into mountains.

[kewhawaii]

12. I have some issues with this...

First) It is terribly inaccurate to say the paper's title represents academia. It is more accurate to say it is post-modernism. Those who were there will know. Perhaps it is enough to say that C&H is just poking gentle fun. Post-modernists deserve it.

Second) The skit runs the risk of pandering to right-wing anti-intellectual attitudes about what they think is academia. Most papers coming out of the ivory towers do not sound like this. The right may think so, but we all know they have a terrible time with carefully nuanced arguments. Too little patience, and too many big words.

Third) right-wing politicians absolutely do not not talk this way. They fumble and stumble like the aggressive, mal-informed asses that they are. Post-modernism sometimes obfuscates, or seems to for those not familiar with the subject. Republicans sound like obnoxious school-yard bullies with their breath-taking assertions we can all see through. It is bigotry run wild.

They are not comparable.

Fourth) I too loved C&H.

[A HERETIC I AM]

17. That sentence sounds EXACTLY like something Jordan Peterson would say.

"The dynamics of interbeing and monological imperatives in Dick and Jane: A study of transrelational gender modes"

Anyone who has listened to Peterson for more than 2 minutes would agree. This is exactly the kind of thing he would say.

WATTERSON WAS CLEARLY PROPHETIC!


BTW, I couldn't remember Peterson's first name, so I typed "pedantic asshole named peterson" into Google and his name was the first result! What an ass.