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Hello fellow Far Side fans!
About this community and how I post the comic strip… Many moons ago, I would ask my Dad to save the newspaper for me everyday so I could read my favorite comic strips and one of those was The Far Side. These days of course you find just about anything online including www.thefarside.com where they post several comics a day and I repost them here. Just to note, the date you see in my posts is not the initial release date, but the date they were posted on the website.
The Far Side is a single-panel comic created by Gary Larson and syndicated by Chronicle Features and then Universal Press Syndicate, which ran from December 31, 1979, to January 1, 1995 (when Larson retired as a cartoonist). Its surrealistic humor is often based on uncomfortable social situations, improbable events, an anthropomorphic view of the world, logical fallacies, impending bizarre disasters, (often twisted) references to proverbs, or the search for meaning in life… Read more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Far_Side
Hope you enjoy and feel free to contribute to the community with art, cool stuff about the author, tattoos, toys and anything else, as long it’s The Far Side!
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A friend and I talked about this years ago. We thought large predators should be released throughout cities and suburbs to provide real threats to people’s lives. This would weed out the weak and infirm and keep people fit and on their toes.
Not really being serious, but an interesting and dark idea.
Wouldn't the rich just build walls and hire wolf body guards while they watched the poor and homeless be eaten?
I’m imagining a group that controls where they get placed and nobody could be 100% safe.
Or something like that.
I was pondering this since you posted and I thought that (short of crafting some other sort of rules) maybe we could shower those rich compounds with smaller deadly creatures. Smaller deadly snakes, venomous spiders, and other deadly insects (Tsetse flies, malaria mosquitoes, etc). Unless they opened their walls.
IDK, but it is interesting to think about.
More realisitcally the large predators would all be hunted down pretty fast, given thats what happened every other time in history.
As our power to make the world safe gets more and more complete, it becomes more and more necessary that we understand the role of danger in human health.
We’ve started to learn this lesson in terms of environmental pathogens, but it’s still only in science. Science shows us that a sterile environment for kids leads to adulthood allergies and autoimmune diseases. But that knowledge hasn’t spread into our culture. Foolish people who think respecting what’s natural is woo (ie who preposterously think anything without an articulated reason is woo) are still falling over themselves to provide their kids with the most sterile environment they can find.
We need danger. We’ve never had to deal with the possibility of eliminating danger before; it was always something to minimize.
Used to be, we are leafy greens because it was all we could find. Now we have to force our kids to eat their vegetables because we know it’s best for them to do so despite their instincts all pointing to sugar and fats. Same thing with danger: we’ve got no instinct to seek danger because we grew up in an environment abundant with it. Naturally, our instincts crave safety because there was so little of it before that we had to take it wherever we could get it.
It’s a hard problem, but not one we get to ignore.