culture
Original: culture on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
A young man with dark hair, speaking earnestly to another man at a table:
Young man: "Culture is amazing. Human beings come and go, but we carry along an immortal conversation that began in an East African cave, made its way around the world, and soon will blossom into the heavens."
The second man (older, balding, in a collared shirt):
Older man: "Yeah. It's great. Just great. Hurray for culture."
Fun fact (caption below the main comic):
You won't go to Mars, but McDonald's will.
Votey:
"50,000 years from now a Dyson sphere will encompass the sun, and its surface will be covered in ads for Walmart."
A young man with dark hair, speaking earnestly to another man at a table:
Young man: "Culture is amazing. Human beings come and go, but we carry along an immortal conversation that began in an East African cave, made its way around the world, and soon will blossom into the heavens."
The second man (older, balding, in a collared shirt):
Older man: "Yeah. It's great. Just great. Hurray for culture."
Fun fact (caption below the main comic):
You won't go to Mars, but McDonald's will.
Votey:
"50,000 years from now a Dyson sphere will encompass the sun, and its surface will be covered in ads for Walmart."
Alt text
A two-panel-style comic showing two men seated at a table. A young man with dark hair speaks earnestly: "Culture is amazing. Human beings come and go, but we carry along an immortal conversation that began in an East African cave, made its way around the world, and soon will blossom into the heavens." The older, balding man beside him replies flatly and unimpressed: "Yeah. It's great. Just great. Hurray for culture." A caption labeled "Fun fact" reads: "You won't go to Mars, but McDonald's will." The votey (bonus panel) is a block of text reading: "50,000 years from now a Dyson sphere will encompass the sun, and its surface will be covered in ads for Walmart." The joke deflates the lofty idea of humanity's grand cultural legacy by suggesting that what actually reaches the stars will be corporate branding and advertising.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.