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government

Original: government on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal

Transcript

Panel 1:
Woman: What do you think is the ideal form of government?
Older man: The one that brings the most happiness.

Panel 2:
Woman: But isn't that contingent on a lot of things? Culture, history, technology, stability...

Panel 3:
Older man: Absolutely. We want happiness, but we cannot know what the ideal structure is. Therefore, logically, we should embrace whatever government style has the funniest name.

Panel 4:
Woman: That's stupid.

Panel 5:
Older man: Aardvarkiarchy.
Woman: I'm in.

Votey:
(No text. A framed picture of an aardvark's face inside a white circle on a red background.)

Alt text

A five-panel comic, a conversation between a woman with wavy hair and a balding older man with glasses. Panel 1, she asks what he thinks the ideal form of government is; he answers, 'The one that brings the most happiness.' Panel 2, she objects that this is contingent on culture, history, technology, and stability. Panel 3, he agrees but argues that since we can't know the ideal structure, we should logically embrace whatever government style has the funniest name. Panel 4, she flatly says, 'That's stupid.' Panel 5, he simply says 'Aardvarkiarchy,' and she immediately replies, 'I'm in.' Votey aftercomic: a framed portrait-style image of an aardvark's face, drawn within a white circle on a red background, illustrating the proposed 'aardvarkiarchy.'

Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.