mortality
Original: mortality on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (bald, with beard): Philosophers have gotten death so wrong forever, lacking even a basic understanding of how DIFFICULTY is a crock of shit!
Panel 2:
Man: The modern science of behavior gapping shows that to acquire a skill not by attaching it directly but by mastering intermediate steps!
Panel 3:
Man: The key to dying well is to actively daily approach death! Start with death of HOPE. Once you have that, move to death of happiness. Then death of dreams, death of standards, death of love.
Man: Shakespeare was caesar say "cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." Point is, if you get the deaths small and frequent, death a day, that's almost a year of training. Then death of comfort, pride, lust by being a coward.
Panel 4:
First man: You're willfully misunderstanding philosophy, literature, and human life in general.
Second man (bald, with beard): Thank you! I killed sense just this morning!
Votey:
Voice (off-panel, left): Have you tried finding inner peace?
Reply (right): I looked! It's not in here!
Man (bald, with beard): Philosophers have gotten death so wrong forever, lacking even a basic understanding of how DIFFICULTY is a crock of shit!
Panel 2:
Man: The modern science of behavior gapping shows that to acquire a skill not by attaching it directly but by mastering intermediate steps!
Panel 3:
Man: The key to dying well is to actively daily approach death! Start with death of HOPE. Once you have that, move to death of happiness. Then death of dreams, death of standards, death of love.
Man: Shakespeare was caesar say "cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once." Point is, if you get the deaths small and frequent, death a day, that's almost a year of training. Then death of comfort, pride, lust by being a coward.
Panel 4:
First man: You're willfully misunderstanding philosophy, literature, and human life in general.
Second man (bald, with beard): Thank you! I killed sense just this morning!
Votey:
Voice (off-panel, left): Have you tried finding inner peace?
Reply (right): I looked! It's not in here!
Alt text
A four-panel comic. A bald, bearded man lectures another man over a series of dense speech bubbles, claiming philosophers have always gotten death wrong and that "the modern science of behavior gapping" shows you should master a skill by tackling intermediate steps. He argues the key to dying well is to approach death daily, starting small: death of hope, then death of happiness, dreams, standards, and love. He paraphrases Shakespeare's line that cowards die many times before their deaths, concluding that frequent small deaths add up to almost a year of training, ending in death of comfort, pride, and lust "by being a coward." In the final panel the listener says, "You're willfully misunderstanding philosophy, literature, and human life in general," and the lecturer cheerfully replies, "Thank you! I killed sense just this morning!" Votey (aftercomic): One character asks, "Have you tried finding inner peace?" and the other answers, "I looked! It's not in here!"
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.