Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for July 17, 2023

I was the victim!

A way to say, “Don’t let Calvin near ANY time machine!”

Why not apply those thoughts to your History homework?

Here in Italy there are people who call themselves ’’famous’’ who at 25 have already written their autobiography.

He’s fast becoming proficient in bafflegab!!!

This reminds me of a well known book review website. People under 40 review books written 100 years ago (such as golden-age detective stories) and complain about the “dated” language and ideas. Nothing dates faster than contemporary fiction. They don’t realise that their current favourites will seem pretty silly to people 100 years from now.

History is written by the victors. The only thing I liked from the other wise garbage film. Brave heart….

Is this somehow related to The Noodle Incident?

So—according to Calvin— people like Hitler, Pol Pot, and Idi Amin never existed!! And Donald Trump is pure fiction (I wish!).

Calvin is getting warmed up to start The History Channel.

Speaking of revisionism, I liked the revisionist Westerns of the early 1970s like Little Big Man, Jeremiah Johnson, and Man in the Wilderness. Richard Harris did look a fish outta water in that one, but played it well. And the movie parody site Rifftrax still will use the riff, “You cook a good rabbit, pilgrim.”

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This is what happens when seven year olds get into the psilocybin.

That’s deep from a six year old.

Ahead of his time.

Reading 1984 is he?

Calvin the Foreseer!

Or people tear down statues.

Truer words . . ., Cal. Perfect description of self-justification.

Self absorbed $ folks !

this boy was ahead of his time.

heck, he may be ahead of our time.

Calvin is way ahead of his six years. Way way way ahead.

He’s writing an unauthorised autobiography.

Actually Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) had a view of human nature that hasn’t changed.

Does this include the infamous “Noodle Incident”?

Nothing new here. Calvin has always tried to deny objective reality.

We have a new version of history that allows for our current prejudices: Wokism.

A revisionist autobiography will look much better!

Science is never “settled”, but what about Morality?

Calvin was so prophectic in panel 2 talking about revisionist history. We are living through that today.

It’s always amazing how Calvin comes up with all these baffling theories and warped out ideas but doesn’t apply that same philosophical type of genius when it comes to doing his homework!

Title and subtitle of mine:

IT IS ALWAYS ABOUT ME

Selective Memories of a Great One

We know all about revisionist history here, Calvin. Additions, removal and editing straight from the Ministry of Truth are beyond common. And the proles believe it. God Save the Queen, Man.

“History is not what happened. It is what we convinced ourselves MUST have happened.” — Alastair Cooke.

Quite the vocabulary for a 6 year old…lol

How’s that working out for you? How many spankings did you skip over?

Makes a lot of sense actually.

Calvin’s autobiographical notes:“It wasn’t me” and “I didn’t do it”.

If you want to see revisionist history, just look at how many commenters come to this comic convinced that they were perfect children and Calvin should be physically beaten until he conforms to that self-vision.

WOW! For a six-year-old Calvin has a fantastic vocabulary.

Hey Cal, that’s exactly what Big Brother did in the book “1984”!

Go ahead Calvin. If you won’t write good stuff about yourself, who will?

Timeless.

“I got a story that ain’t got no morals, with the bad guys winning every once in a while” – Billy Preston

I need to take a stab at that as well

Amen, Calvin!!!

Calvin’s grades are so horrible that he would include a page in his autobiography that says “About the Author”.

The MAGA party and Jan. 6

So when does Calvin change his name to George Santos ?

The wave harmonic theory of historical perception, in its simplest form, states that history is an illusion caused by the passage of time, and that time is an illusion caused by the passage of history. It also states that one’s perception of these illusions is conditioned by three important factors: who you are; where you are; and when you last had lunch with Zaphod Beeblebrox. Or Calvin and Hobbes.

A strip that is both thought provoking and has a droll punchline. I like.

I wonder if Calvin and Hobbes are familiar with the concept of “The Domino Principle” (aka Butterfly Effect)?

Like it never happened

In history, the academic kind, revisionism is an interpretation based on newly discovered or already known facts. I think it was the Soviet Union that started the other definition.

He is way beyond the mundane teachings of Mrs Wormwood.

Uncle Ives: “Nobody has the time, for more than one Version of the Truth.”

Mr. LeSpark: “Then let us have nothing but jolly Theatrickals about the Past, and be done with it.”

Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon

I thought revisionist history was the excuse Calvin gave for how the window was broken.

So Calvin becomes a psychohistorian??

Rewriting history… lots of that going on these days.

Calvin would like the novel Sapiens.

This could’ve been written more recently, the way things are “history” is changing today.

Boy, is this ‘toon timely for us or what? With Republicans trying to make Trump’s two impeachments disappear and Red States trying to make Black History disappear, one might think they’re all taking their cue from Calvin.

Another Watterson observation that was trenchant. Consider the decline in people believing there is objective truth now.

And this is how history books have become meaningless.

Brilliant!!