Humanities
Original: Humanities on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Panel 1:
Man (tech-bro, dark hair): These tech bros drive me nuts. We need more of them to engage with the humanities...
Woman (red hair): Do you know what utter dread it would be before becoming a poetry painting?
Panel 2:
Woman (red hair): Are you insane?
Man: Stalin was a poet! And was a teacher! Humans as nerdy erotic fictions!
Panel 3:
Man: You want to take a bunch of ambitious people and put them through the bottomless self-loathing of attempting to build a life on top of an arts degree, and you think this will help humankind?!
Panel 4:
Man: Accelerate the end times! Bring on the apocalypse! More art history degrees!
Woman (red hair, holding a child): Aah!
Votey:
Man (close-up, angry): Dammit! The whole reason we invented science was so ambitious people would sit around fiddling with nerd problems!
Man (tech-bro, dark hair): These tech bros drive me nuts. We need more of them to engage with the humanities...
Woman (red hair): Do you know what utter dread it would be before becoming a poetry painting?
Panel 2:
Woman (red hair): Are you insane?
Man: Stalin was a poet! And was a teacher! Humans as nerdy erotic fictions!
Panel 3:
Man: You want to take a bunch of ambitious people and put them through the bottomless self-loathing of attempting to build a life on top of an arts degree, and you think this will help humankind?!
Panel 4:
Man: Accelerate the end times! Bring on the apocalypse! More art history degrees!
Woman (red hair, holding a child): Aah!
Votey:
Man (close-up, angry): Dammit! The whole reason we invented science was so ambitious people would sit around fiddling with nerd problems!
Alt text
A four-panel SMBC comic. A dark-haired man and a red-haired woman argue about pushing tech people into the humanities. The man complains that tech bros annoy him and should engage more with the humanities, while the woman reacts with dread and alarm ("Are you insane?"). The man rants that forcing ambitious people through an arts degree means subjecting them to bottomless self-loathing while trying to build a life on it, and that this won't help humankind. In the final panel he throws his arms up declaring "Accelerate the end times! Bring on the apocalypse! More art history degrees!" as the woman, holding a child, cries out in alarm. Votey: a close-up of the angry man shouting, "Dammit! The whole reason we invented science was so ambitious people would sit around fiddling with nerd problems!" The joke flips the usual "techies should study humanities" advice, framing an arts degree as a path to misery and science as a refuge for ambitious nerds.
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.