Oh, Calvin, I know a six-year-old doesn’t want to hear it, but patience. You’re in 1992, and in another 25 years both you and the times will be just right for your propensities…
Calvin, unbridled greed and conspicuous consumption of wealth is still here. It’s just that those who crave it are no longer willing to work for it. They want the government to steal it from those who have and give it those who want it.
The “get ahead by any means” has eliminated working for it
It all started when you were not allowed to spank your child or to keep scores at their games! Todays children can be PROUD at being failures! Russia, The Orient, Europe teach their kids to be the BEST, we are happy with mediocrity. If you can say your kid was not shot today at school or kidnapped while walking to or from school.. Then that kid is happy and content! I am still waiting for that massive blackout where cell phones can not be charged… what will our children do…..
Our view of society is usually the result of our perspective more than the result of what we actually see. Like all the other times in most of living memory, the “Me Decade” was a television phenomenon.
I have an inkling of what Calvin is going through. I was a little to young for the 60’s. All that sex, drugs and rock & roll was only a spectator event for me. …sigh.
Don’t worry Calvin, you didn’t miss unbridled greed or conspicuous consumption. If they seemed to be momentarily on the decline, they’ve long since come roaring back.
Someone who does not suffer from excessive greed is the author Bill Watterson, he cancelled Calvin and Hobbes in its prime. It is estimated if he started the comic up again with associated merchandise he could earn in excess of $200 million.
BE THIS GUY over 2 years ago
The 1980’s were the Al Franken decade. No reason the 1990’s can’t be the Calvin decade.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoaOZW7rTo&t=28s
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codycab over 2 years ago
How about the people who were consumed by all the things that Calvin said? That’s a better question.
Templo S.U.D. over 2 years ago
bummer, Calvin
C over 2 years ago
You’re the wrong gender to get in on that ethos
GeorgeInAZ over 2 years ago
Oh, the Me Generation is still with us. It’s perpetual. Look at DC and the elites. John Kerry and Joe Biden are some of the poster children.
Bilan over 2 years ago
Unbridled greed? Conspicuous consumption of wealth? Get-ahead-by-any-means? The FBI just squashed that at Mar-a-Lago.
Alexander the Good Enough over 2 years ago
Oh, Calvin, I know a six-year-old doesn’t want to hear it, but patience. You’re in 1992, and in another 25 years both you and the times will be just right for your propensities…
rentier over 2 years ago
True, they cannot end my life, before I have really lived! It’s not fair!!
The dude from FL Premium Member over 2 years ago
It’s still there!
Zykoic over 2 years ago
Human nature transcends ideology.
Yontrop over 2 years ago
Don’t worry Calvin; the future awaits.
SNVBD over 2 years ago
Donald J. Calvin?
Susan00100 over 2 years ago
Calvin, meet Donald J. Trump—the REAL exemplar of unbridled greed!!
The Reader Premium Member over 2 years ago
Sadly, he really did last for only a decade!
VegaAlopex over 2 years ago
Calvin should try to be a cog of the corporate state.
Purple People Eater over 2 years ago
I wasn’t aware that unbridled greed, the conspicouous consumption of wealth, and the get-ahead-by-any-means credo had ever left us.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member over 2 years ago
Hobbes cracked me up in the last panel!
johnjoyce over 2 years ago
Didn’t anyone else think of Gordon Gekko: “Greed is good.” ?
SunshineDaydream over 2 years ago
I come to GoComics to get away from all the political comments…please.
dflak over 2 years ago
It’s baaaack, Calvin. Bigger and “better” than ever.
Zebrastripes over 2 years ago
Why would anyone follow the lead of a traitor, a confirmed liar, and a fascist?
jagedlo over 2 years ago
to answer Calvin’s statement in the third panel…yes, they can and they often have!
mgl179 over 2 years ago
Calvin, unbridled greed and conspicuous consumption of wealth is still here. It’s just that those who crave it are no longer willing to work for it. They want the government to steal it from those who have and give it those who want it.
The “get ahead by any means” has eliminated working for it
yangeldf over 2 years ago
Calvin was there to watch the boomers pull that ladder up behind themselves
tripwire45 over 2 years ago
The “Me Decade” never left.
mckeonfuneralhomebx over 2 years ago
It all started when you were not allowed to spank your child or to keep scores at their games! Todays children can be PROUD at being failures! Russia, The Orient, Europe teach their kids to be the BEST, we are happy with mediocrity. If you can say your kid was not shot today at school or kidnapped while walking to or from school.. Then that kid is happy and content! I am still waiting for that massive blackout where cell phones can not be charged… what will our children do…..
flagmichael over 2 years ago
Our view of society is usually the result of our perspective more than the result of what we actually see. Like all the other times in most of living memory, the “Me Decade” was a television phenomenon.
IshkaBibel1 over 2 years ago
The Al Franken Decade
rshive over 2 years ago
Well, yeah. Responsibility can be really dull.
KEA over 2 years ago
It’s back with a vengeance but confined to a precious few
Daltongang Premium Member over 2 years ago
Now THIS is the kid that Lila should have adopted. They are so alike it is scary.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 2 years ago
I have an inkling of what Calvin is going through. I was a little to young for the 60’s. All that sex, drugs and rock & roll was only a spectator event for me. …sigh.
goboboyd over 2 years ago
Goal achieved Watterson’s little dude.
amanbe3 over 2 years ago
Wow, did those comments go south in a hurry!
Holden Awn over 2 years ago
Not to worry, Calvin, Identity Politics is alive and well.
mistercatworks over 2 years ago
Well, you could move to Texas (or some other equally laissez-faire state).
John Jorgensen over 2 years ago
Don’t worry Calvin, you didn’t miss unbridled greed or conspicuous consumption. If they seemed to be momentarily on the decline, they’ve long since come roaring back.
g04922 over 2 years ago
Oh, Calvin, there are plenty of “Me’s” around. And it is ALL about YOU.
Dreaming in Alola over 2 years ago
If it were up to you, Calvin, you’d have a “me century”.
BiggerNate91 over 2 years ago
It’s amazing at how well and how poorly some of these strips age.
Omniman over 2 years ago
Relax Calvin, none of that stuff is even slowing down, let alone gone.
Malcome1 over 2 years ago
It’s alive and well here Calvin. You just wait 30 years.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 2 years ago
Calvinattitude! Didn’t we vote for that in 2016?
Mark DeMist Premium Member over 2 years ago
Calvin really needs a MAGA hat. He’s a natural.
Doctor Go over 2 years ago
Mitch McConnell as a young boy. Especially the get ahead by any means credo…
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 2 years ago
“Calvin stole that idea from me…Al Franken!”
Realimaginary1 Premium Member over 2 years ago
Because I used to love me, but it’s all over now!
hagarthehorrible over 2 years ago
Love the sympathic sarcastic comments from Hobbes.
Tossle Premium Member over 2 years ago
Someone who does not suffer from excessive greed is the author Bill Watterson, he cancelled Calvin and Hobbes in its prime. It is estimated if he started the comic up again with associated merchandise he could earn in excess of $200 million.
dimndno over 2 years ago
I liked the “Me Decade” better than the “Decade of Al Franken.”
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 2 years ago
Hobbes, this is an eternal struggle in our world.