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God bless that little chicken.
He will certainly not be dying a painful, yet delicious and extra crispy death in vain.
I think the “in between those steps” is all the Colonel Sanders chickens pictured actually get.
For the rest of us, these actually do pretty much say it. George Orwell was wrong. We don’t need to get the TVs watching people; as long as everyone is watching their TVs, there won’t be any thought crime. In fact, there won’t be any thought at all. We won’t even notice that Fox forgot to change their corporate name from 20th Century Fox to 21st Century Fox. We won’t even care that a more apt name might be 13th Century Fox.
Ah yes, America, land of the overworked, and home of the chicken-shit.
I pray every night for a world of meaning, of purpose, where we can enjoy the freedom to give to our fellow man according to our abilities, and I awake every morning dissapointed. Perhaps the internet and our newfound connectivity can be the begining of a better world, but we have to fight for the future, with every moment, with every breath, and then perhaps we can die satisfied, instead of crispy fried.
soylent green?
#3 – I’m so glad that I’m not alone
>where we can enjoy the freedom to give to our fellow man according to
>our abilities, and I awake every morning dissapointed.
Yeah, it’s true. But we have to make that world, they aren’t going to give it out for free.
It’s Matt Groening’s old comic strip “Life In Hell” brought back to life, with slightly less wit and art.
Yeah, I loved “Life in Hell” but that strip took 600 panes to make the same point that one did in 12, and I don’t think Dave could fit that many panes in the comment field.
Those people living in suburbs just don’t get how awful their life is. They need to move out of those dead end jobs and go back to the cities.
I really, really liked this (though I’ve seen this before). It is a little simplistic, but it drives home a point. I knew it all along, we’re not sheep or lemmings but chickens!
Yeah, there’s a lot of hate, greed, intolerance and legions of shit stirrers out to make sure we’re all unhappy as hell with our lives. I personally seek tranquility, and the way home is to avoid overwrought reactions to things that we can’t change anyways, but when change is necessary then do it, deal with the fallout, and get on with it.
Chicken? Chicken Chicken chicken??
Chicken Chicken chicken Chicken Chicken chicken Chicken Chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken chicken CHICKEN!
Thank you.
Chicken, Chicken??
Isn’t the point that America as a whole has no focus, purpose and not Chickens?
Has America reached its peak and plateaued?
Cheers
Unfortunately this is true
And yet this is the life that most of the world wants , emulates and hates america out of jealously
Soon 10 zillion chinese will have this life too
Go figure
Reminds me of the cartoon of chicken little pointing to a downward graph with a stick
“And I predict that if current trends prevail the sky will fall”
#15 Better go Fishing – I don’t believe that people hate America for the reason of jealousy as you say. That is a myth in my opinion.
China and Chinese people for example are not jealous of America at all -jealous of what? They are enjoying their prosperity and lifestyle improvement in a way that for Americans today is a long distant dream! Funny thing is many Chinese view an America that has long faded away – the streets are no longer paved in gold.
Come to Shanghai for that! The government threw away +1.2 BILLION dollars on a Maglev train that goes no where. Its only a demonstration of the technology so they say. Shanghai is divided by a river – west of the river is PUXI, the old Shanghai. East of the river is PUDONG, the new Shanghai. The new Shanghai international airport is in PUDONG and the Maglev travels from the airport to halfway through PUDONG on the way to PUXI – so it is really useless. But the money flows like water here as China is not in the business of bombing other countries – expensive business that…
LOL Europe does not copy America at all – if so where? In fact I would say its the other way around.
Cheers
#9 – last place you want to be is a city. People there will just as soon kill you and eat you as look at you. Especially if you’re a chicken.
The idea of this comic is pretty much clear. I have a question, though. Who gets to collect the eggs and what does he do with them? Omelet ?
The fact that we even get to contemplate this is huge statement of success. For 99.99999% of human history working all day long just to survive for tomorrow, next week, next month was the sole and only goal. All of the scenes depicted in the cartoon are easy. What you do with all this leisure is your business. People tend to do what they want and if that is watching TV, so what.
#17 – iGW,
Interesting tack you’ve taken in this. Are you suggesting that rural folk are chickens? that rural folk are not the fittest for survival and would thus be naturally selected out in a city?
#20 – Nope. Country folk live a more civilized existence where they don’t have to kill and eat each other.
#20 iGW Correct, statistics show most violent crimes are committed in urban areas compared to rural areas.
According to U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics
* From 1993 to 1998 the trends in violent and property crime for urban and suburban areas were similar. For both urban and suburban areas, violent and property crime trends during this period decreased at a greater rate than in rural areas.
* The average annual 1993-98 violent crime rate in urban areas was about 74% higher than the rural rate and 37% higher than the suburban rate.
* Urban males experienced violent victimizations at rates 64% higher than the average combined suburban and rural male rate and 47% higher than urban females.
* Although most violent crimes in urban (60%), suburban (68%), and rural (70%) areas were committed without a weapon, firearm usage in the commission of a violent crime was higher in urban areas when compared to suburban or rural areas (12% urban versus 9% suburban and 8% rural).
* Between 1993 and 1998, 19 in 20 suburban and rural households owned motor vehicles; however, in suburban households the theft of motor vehicles (13 per 1,000 households) was twice the rural rate (6 per 1,000 households) during this period.
* Property crimes were generally completed at higher rates against urban households than against suburban or rural households.
* Urban violent crime victims were more likely than suburban or rural crime victims to be victimized by a stranger (respectively, 53%, 47%, and 34% of violent crime victims).
Why can’t we just get along? 😉
Cheers