Oh dear God this is funny.

Click through: I refuse to spoil the joke.  Then again, it’s xkcd, so you’ve probably already read it. And laughed.

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

    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.
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        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

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

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