Over the Hedge by T Lewis and Michael Fry for August 04, 2023

Well, since I am very pressable and moveable, I’m not sure either of those applies to me.

As I always keep in mind when driving, half of all people on earth are of below average intelligence.

The enemy is what the enemy of humans has always been: The Others. The Not-Us.

Today’s Background Music … Pink Floyd … Us And Them ;-)

in the swamp

There’s no use trying to please anyone.

Pogo reference

The futility of action. Verne’s getting downright Zen on us.

I miss Pogo!

almost half of the voting publim, 74 million, in fact

“Pogo”, ca 1953.

I never even read Pogo, and I had no idea that Walt Kelly actually said that.

Surprisingly accurate.

WARNING: Free Will can have unintended consequences, one of which could be extinction.

“And then, one Thursday, nearly two thousand years after one man had been nailed to a tree for saying how great it would be to be nice to people for a change, a girl sitting on her own in a small café in Rickmansworth suddenly realized what it was that had been going wrong all this time, and she finally knew how the world could be made a good and happy place. This time it was right, it would work, and no one would have to get nailed to anything”

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (before the Vogans took out the Earth)

actually, ½ the world would thank god and ignore the saviors

If you were in charge, there wouldn’t be enough twinkies for everyone…

“It ought to be remembered that there is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the introduction of a new order of things. Because the innovator has for enemies all those who have done well under the old conditions, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new. This coolness arises partly from fear of the opponents, who have the laws on their side, and partly from the incredulity of men, who do not readily believe in new things until they have had a long experience of them.”― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

I offer to save the world, solve all of the problems and no one takes me up on it. Remove 90% of the people. Over population is the cause of ALL the world problems. Want the species to survive for some reason ? That is the only solution. Sadly the rest would not learn a thing from this and breed themselves out of existence.

Pogo used to say “We have seen the enemy, and he is us.”

It’s not half is the enemy — 46.8% is more accurate

Walt Kelly’s quote is also an homage to another: Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, who sent the message, “We have met the enemy and they are ours.” Reminds me of Snoopy’s quote, originally, “It was a dark and stormy night”, became “He was a dark and stormy knight.”

Walt said ‘and he is us’, NOT ‘and he is HALF of us’. The woke religion on parade, dismissing all others as obviously the ‘wrong’ ones?

The movie was much funnier than the strip.