Comment on Blurble
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 days agoLooking at the last panel
The last panel is a fantasy by the artist.
It’s a thought experiment, reminds me of zen Buddhist koans. “What is the sound of one clapping hand?” or “What did your face look like before your parents were born?” don’t have an answer.
You can answer these questions. People just get anger when you do, because they want the question to be mystical rather than nonsensical. When they get silly-but-correct answers, it denudes the questions of their woo-woo faux-wisdom.
So you have to fall back on even vaguer and more imprecise language, to try and obscure the original badly worded riddle.
lugal@sopuli.xyz 6 days ago
This might come as a surprise, but the whole comic is. If you read the first 3 panels as being historically accurate, I see where your confusion comes from.
Anyway, you have a very unimaginative and literal approach to all this and that’s just not the layer the comic communicates on. Maybe at least acknowledge that.
petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 days ago
The one thing I really dislike about lemmy in general is that there are sooo many people like this here.
No fun. No whimsy. All philosophical challenges are puzzles meant to be conquered by misinterpreting the point and then writing a 4-line python script. It’s linux people, man, I swear.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 6 days ago
The first panel is a challenge by the author, which is real at least in so far as it’s a sentiment the author actually has.
The next two are filler.
The fourth is an invented response.