Frazz by Jef Mallett for September 28, 2023

Caulfield is remarking about people that can’t foresee the consequences of their cleverness? Get a mirror guy.

The “maker movement” is filled with wanna-be Adam Savage’s who have no idea of how to actually, you know, MAKE something.

The question is illogical, knowledge and imagination do a wonderful dance together and lead beyond Caulfields limited question!

Einstein usually ranked out at the top of the list.

My mind is all awhirl, trying to figure out what he said.

This was part of Einstein’s first (and unknown) Theory of Relativity.

Yep. How to relate one thing to the other. The intellect can dream up a solution but can’t be sure of the reaction. The dreamer can fill in the excuses for an idea that bombs.

Imagination solves problems while knowledge verify the data is accurate?

Knowledge without imagination isn’t cleverness. The only thing Jeff needed to write in Frazz’s bubble is “baloney”.

Knowledge without imagination seems to be a waste of knowledge? Except for the trivia nights at the local pub.

The worst of all is the guy who has both but thinks what he imagines is the same as what he truly knows.

I love the artwork in this strip. The dialog, not so much.

Which is more dangerous, a false dichotomy or an invidious comparison?

We once only imagined what it would be like to stand on the moon. Once we only imagined, there would be a cure for a cancer. Once we only imagined what life would be like after a criminal president left office. Once we imagined what life would be like after a pandemic. Once we imagined, there was a cure for the aids virus. It can’t be too hard then to imagine we could all get behind some solutions to climate change.

Stupid smart people are dangerous people

After watching Oppenheimer, I mused that we may be approaching a demo point in finding an answer to the Fermi Paradox: Does intelligent life eventually evolve rational scientists imaginative and creative enuf to invent weapons of mass destruction while simultaneously harboring irrational politicians willing to use them?

“Je soutiens.”

Too bad we have several people who lack knowledge but have a lot of hateful imagination in charge of things

Man, I LOVE this strip!

Einstein’s quote was referring to solving problems in physics, which I’m sure is not what these guys are talking about.