Oh dear God this is funny.

5 thoughts on “Oh dear God this is funny.”

1. His alt-text sermonizing on marriage is a bit much, I’ll say.

   1. To be fair, it’s John Kellogg’s sermonizing. I think that the point of the whole thing is not about whether any of these people were *wrong* – I happen to agree with a lot of what those folks were writing, and I expect that Munroe does, too – but whether our modern complaints about society are anything *new.* Which they’re not, but a lot of people think that they are. 🙂

      1. I read it as more a failure, on the part of the whiners, to recognize the role of human nature.

         Instead, they were blaming some new technological or sociological shift for .. well .. for humans being humans.
         .
         Missing, in other words, the corrolary to Solomon’s point about there being nothing new under the sun… when you think you see something new, look again.
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         Mew

2. I’ve read similar quotes supposedly from Roman authors. Nothing new under the sun, definitely.

3. Speaking of xkcd — remember “Time”?

   It’s … Still … Going …

   Current: http://www.xkcd.com/1190/

   The whole thing (so far): http://xkcd.aubronwood.com/

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