Peanuts Begins by Charles Schulz for July 18, 2023

We’re all in someone’s human farm.

I heard Trelane had retired..

It reminds me of an episode in “The Twilight Zone”.

There IS a Giant watching you!!

My first thought also.

before AI and security cams – yet the spider senses were tingling

No one would have believed, in the last years of the nineteenth century, that this world was being watched, keenly and closely, by intelligences greater than man’s, and yet as mortal as his own. That as human beings busied themselves about their various concerns, they were scrutinized and studied, perhaps almost as narrowly as a man with a microscope might scrutinize the transient creatures that swarm and multiply in a drop of water. (H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds)

Hard to believe, but ants appear able to pass the mirror test.

Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite ’em,

And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.

And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;

While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.

De Morgan A Budget of Paradoxes

They had a glimmer of the Fourth Wall but unfortunately looked in the wrong direction.

Worlds within worlds has been a sci-fi staple for many decades. Who knows.

Bugs Bunny: Listen, Dracula… Have you ever had the feeling you were being watched? Like the eyes of strange things are upon you? Look, out there in the audience.

Gossamer: PEEEE-PLE! Aieeeeeeee!

Hair-Raising Hare (1946)

What did they ser up there?