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2014-12-16

Original: 2014-12-16 on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1: A king (with crown and beard) speaks.
King: We killed all of the demographers, we're not sure how many there were.

Panel 2: A robed/hooded figure (a counselor or sage) speaks.
Figure: We killed all of the epistemologists, we are not sure if that was right or wrong.

Panel 3: A bald, bearded man looks distressed.
Bald man: WHY?!

Panel 4: The king again.
King: We killed all of the epistemologists. No one can answer that.

Votey:
A long-haired figure leans in with a wide grin, shouting.
Figure: HEYOOOOOO!

Alt text

A four-panel comic. Panel 1: a bearded king in a crown says, "We killed all of the demographers, we're not sure how many there were." Panel 2: a hooded robed figure says, "We killed all of the epistemologists, we are not sure if that was right or wrong." Panel 3: a distressed bald, bearded man cries, "WHY?!" Panel 4: the king replies, "No one can answer that" — the joke being that with all the epistemologists (people who study how we know what we know) dead, the question of why is unanswerable. Votey: a grinning long-haired figure leans in and shouts "HEYOOOOOO!" like a comedian delivering a punchline.

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.