Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for June 11, 2019

They do have tiny brains.

He doesn’t give up on watching TV! Got to respect it.

Whereas the ants do the same task day in, day out. So do you Calvin, school, eat, harass Susy, play with Hobbes, watch TV, have Hobbes do your homework, have Mom and Dad yell at you.

in some C&H comic, Calvin once imagined himself in an any colony where he heaves a dead caterpillar when he’s really carrying his laundry

Of course, the anthill isn’t the objective, it’s just their version of a landfill. It’s like if a human construction crew just threw their debris in the street.

Not that that comment ads anything to the joke, but, meh, I had to get it out of my head, and here is a good place, so….

Next I suppose Calvin is going to call Pinky and the Brain morons for doing the same thing they do every night?

There is a moron in today’s strip—-and it’s not the ants!

Cal, there was a fight going on in the colony. If you had waited, you could have witnessed the ant-i-climax!

Calvin was way ahead of his time- and not in a good way

Well done ‘Grass Hopper’. Lessons learned from TV are far more valuable in the long run than those learned from nature. In 40 years you will not be reminiscing about ants but about Ginger and Mary Ann.

It’s all a matter of scale. Just as all of the ants hard work can/will be wiped out by a sweep of Calvin’s foot, so shall all the works of man be wiped out by mother nature once she decides we’ve desecrated her planet enough.

Line should read: let’s see what morons are doing on tv.

Yes, let’s go inside and watch THEM! (Hee-hee-hee.)

Hey Calvin, remember when you were about to wipe out an anthill and then decided against it?…

sounds like my kitchen counter top

Can you say metaphor? I knew you could!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhswH1bLMy8

So, I’m an ant – married with children. If my sister is killed, does that make her an antibody?

Having a TV does not mean you have to watch it non-stop. It does have an off button, you know. TV offers educational and informational shows in addition to the crap (like reality shows).

Good news and bad news.

Not one of Calvin’s better forays into philosophy.

Ants have hiveminds – incapable of thinking independently. Very much like members of our two dominant political parties.

Calvin, go read a book instead. Hemingway’s A Separate Peace, comes to mind.

One of the big insights for me was the realization that for “hive insects” (ants, honeybees), the individual is the hive, not the single insect. Those ants are no more important to the ant colony than the skin cells that protect me for a few days then die and slough off… or the cells in my heart: Totally not individually important though they work without stopping and I’d die if a bunch of them gave up at once.

The lesson is for adults not for 6 yrs olds. TV and now mobiles take all the attention of kids.

“This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.”

I sat for two hours last weekend and meditated on the actions of the ants that wandered across the patch of dirt I was watching. It was still better than TV.

I say the same thing Calvin does every time I read/watch another hurricane destroying yet another community on a coast in the South/East.