the-strong
Original: the-strong on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A bearded ancient-Greek man in a white toga, with a furrowed brow and a raised clenched fist, speaks emphatically.
Man: THE STRONG DO WHAT THEY CAN, AND THE WEAK ENDURE WHAT THEY MUST.
Caption (below panel): Thucydides gets his children to rake the lawn.
Votey:
Title (header): Thrasymachus
A line-drawn bearded man with heavy eyebrows speaks.
Man: Justice is when you take out the garbage and do your homework.
A bearded ancient-Greek man in a white toga, with a furrowed brow and a raised clenched fist, speaks emphatically.
Man: THE STRONG DO WHAT THEY CAN, AND THE WEAK ENDURE WHAT THEY MUST.
Caption (below panel): Thucydides gets his children to rake the lawn.
Votey:
Title (header): Thrasymachus
A line-drawn bearded man with heavy eyebrows speaks.
Man: Justice is when you take out the garbage and do your homework.
Alt text
An angry bearded man in a white Greek toga raises a clenched fist and declares, "THE STRONG DO WHAT THEY CAN, AND THE WEAK ENDURE WHAT THEY MUST." The caption below reads: "Thucydides gets his children to rake the lawn." The joke recasts a famous line from the ancient historian Thucydides as a parent strong-arming kids into chores. Votey: A simple black-and-white sketch titled "Thrasymachus" shows another bearded man saying, "Justice is when you take out the garbage and do your homework," parodying the Sophist's might-makes-right view of justice as just another parent's chore demand.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.