think
Original: think on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Woman: Do you think the unexamined life is not worth living?
Man: Uh. Do existentialists seem happy to you?
Panel 2:
Woman: People go their whole lives without conducting a deep analysis of the meaning of it all. They accept that everything must have a point to it and they move on about the pragmatic actions of the 16 waking hours of the day.
Panel 3:
Man: Imagine if we applied this logic to any other domain. Is the unexamined car not worth driving? Is the unexamined pie not worth eating?
Panel 4:
Woman: It's the examined stuff that sucks! The examined yogurt is a literal cesspool of bacteria. The examined steak was feeling the warmth of a pasture sun last Tuesday.
Panel 5:
Man: What about science? Don't you want to examine the universe?
Woman: Go ahead and try! Does it make any sense that the location of an object can be determined by an equation with an imaginary term?
Panel 6:
Woman: Examined things are inevitably confusing, disgusting or both. Why do we want to invoke these things on existence?!
Panel 7:
Man: Sounds like you've examined this problem carefully.
Woman: That's why I'm shouting!
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The y-axis is labeled "inner peace" and the x-axis is labeled "introspection." The curve starts high on the left, dips down sharply to near zero in the middle, then spikes up to a tall peak before plunging back down to the axis.
Woman: Do you think the unexamined life is not worth living?
Man: Uh. Do existentialists seem happy to you?
Panel 2:
Woman: People go their whole lives without conducting a deep analysis of the meaning of it all. They accept that everything must have a point to it and they move on about the pragmatic actions of the 16 waking hours of the day.
Panel 3:
Man: Imagine if we applied this logic to any other domain. Is the unexamined car not worth driving? Is the unexamined pie not worth eating?
Panel 4:
Woman: It's the examined stuff that sucks! The examined yogurt is a literal cesspool of bacteria. The examined steak was feeling the warmth of a pasture sun last Tuesday.
Panel 5:
Man: What about science? Don't you want to examine the universe?
Woman: Go ahead and try! Does it make any sense that the location of an object can be determined by an equation with an imaginary term?
Panel 6:
Woman: Examined things are inevitably confusing, disgusting or both. Why do we want to invoke these things on existence?!
Panel 7:
Man: Sounds like you've examined this problem carefully.
Woman: That's why I'm shouting!
Votey:
A hand-drawn line graph. The y-axis is labeled "inner peace" and the x-axis is labeled "introspection." The curve starts high on the left, dips down sharply to near zero in the middle, then spikes up to a tall peak before plunging back down to the axis.
Alt text
A seven-panel SMBC comic. A man and a woman debate Socrates' claim that the unexamined life is not worth living, set against a snowy outdoor background. Panel 1: She asks if he thinks the unexamined life isn't worth living; he replies, "Do existentialists seem happy to you?" Panel 2: She argues most people live without deeply analyzing the meaning of it all and just get on with the practical hours of their day. Panel 3: He counters by applying the logic elsewhere: "Is the unexamined car not worth driving? Is the unexamined pie not worth eating?" Panel 4: She insists the examined stuff sucks, complaining that examined yogurt is a cesspool of bacteria and examined steak was a living cow feeling sunlight last Tuesday. Panel 5: He asks about examining the universe; she rants that physics makes no sense because an object's location can be determined by an equation with an imaginary term. Panel 6: She declares examined things are inevitably confusing, disgusting, or both. Panel 7: He says, "Sounds like you've examined this problem carefully," and she snaps, "That's why I'm shouting!" Votey: a crude hand-drawn line graph with y-axis "inner peace" and x-axis "introspection"; the line starts high, crashes to near zero, briefly spikes to a tall peak, then drops back to zero, showing that inner peace mostly collapses as introspection increases.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.