The Far Side
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
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What an interesting comic. I hope I'm not ruining the joke by talking about it, but to paraphrase Marge Simpson, I just think it's neat.
So first, I wouldn't be surprised if there's some museum out there that actually has a display like this today.
An alien looking at this display might think that it's interesting how the same creature dressed differently and used different tools at different times. But a human would look at this, see the cell phones as a joke, and think how different we are today from the other displays.
But realistically, the alien's perspective is more correct. Humans haven't changed all that much. In the grand scheme of things, our technology and culture has changed a great deal, but the humans living in that culture and using that technology would fit right in if they were born in the time of the spear wielding display. There are some changes, but we're pretty much the same creatures.
Not ruining the joke, I appreciate reading dissections like this! Makes me wonder if we would still be able to interbreed with Neanderthals or other hominids if they were still alive. There's definitely people around that would be up for getting freaky with them.