Doonesbury by Garry Trudeau for December 21, 2023

I thought this was a full service resort.

Sounds like Mar-A-Lago!!

Panel #3 is very nicely composed in the classical P3-Hiatus style but somebody spoke and I went into a dream — GBT casually subverts the form, confounds expectations.

Well, there goes the Meaning of Pleasure!!

What’s the point? The point is, are we willing to grow along spiritual lines?

And yet again, Trudeau decides to give his young characters no redeeming features whatsoever.

For most people life is meaningless. We know this planet’s going to burn up as the sun expands. The real wonder is that they don’t go crazy more often. At least I am relatively non-violent.

For meaning, you have to go to Gilligan’s Island Resort, three islands to the West.

I’ve encountered various theists who’ve assured me that God must exist, otherwise there’d be no meaning to life. I’m puzzled that they’re so unimaginative that they can’t create their own. Or even live without it. What’s the worst that could happen?

Empty pursuit of pleasure is better than empty meaning.

Meaning is subjective.

A hitler reference?

Serve them one one of those stacked rum concoctions. Their worries will drift away with their consciousness.