January 19th, 2008
Pleasing Nietzche
Really, this comic should have read, ‘I should be drawing comics, but I’m not watching TV either’.
It’s been a really busy week – one of those where I find myself wearing a suit on two different occasions.
So, in lieu of yesterday’s comic you get this one.
I’m hoping to add to the innate confusion with beard-wearing political philosophers.
I’ll see you tomorrow, when I’ll be back to spending my time watching television and drawing comics.
I like Marx. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Groucho_Marx#.22Marx_and_Lennon.22
Wasn’t Marx one of the dudes who inspired George Orwell’s Animal Farm?
Yo, random subject, but can anyone help me out with an essay on Jekyll and Hyde? I’m not letting myself go to bed ’till it’s finished, cos it’s due in monday…but I’m rather stuck. Anyone still awake and able to help? If not, no wurries….I’ll search wikipedia or summats :p
I”d help Maddie, but I have a very limited knowledge on that subject.
From what I remember, it is something about the inner struggle of good and evil in ppl.
I could be wrong.
Animal farm was an allegory of Russian communism, and many of the animals in the book represent people such as Stalin and Trotsky. Old Major, the wise pig who first suggests the idea of revolution, almost certainly represents Marx, although it’s likely that he is also partially inspired by Lenin. It’s also possible that Lenin, along with Trotsky, is represented by Snowball the pig.
I think that’s a pretty acurate summary… the story is an allegory for the Bolshevic revolutionaries.
That said, it’s also a moral tale about how political ideals can be easily twisted.
There’s a fair bit of that going on these days, twisting…
Anyway, there’s always this strip:
http://theflowfieldunity.com/2007/08/17/oh-well-orwell/
where we natter on some more about the subject.
An aussy comic artist, Leunig, did a really good comic on the in and outs of suits.
Very interesting interpretation business fashion.
What is it with beards and philosophy?
Do you think the beard makes the man,
or the philosophy makes the beard?
Philosophy makes the beard – they spend so long pondering this that and the other, they forget to shave.
But then again, the beard makes the man, because people remember them better when they have a big bushy beard.
…well it worked for santa claus.