Existential Comics

Also, Wagner is a Steelers fan and I'm rooting for them out of spite.

This is exactly how interviews go for philosophy professors and no one can convince me otherwise.

One day I'm going to intentionally make a comic that misinterprets Stoicism so bad that it'll piss off all the Stoicism nerds, and I'll be like "ha, got you!"

Based on the Swampman thought experiment By Donald Davdison. Suppose Davidson goes hiking in the swamp and is struck and killed by a lightning bolt. At the same time, nearby in the swamp another lightning bolt spontaneously rearranges a bunch of molecules such that, entirely by coincidence, they take on exactly the same form that Davidson's body had at the moment of his untimely death. This being, whom Davidson terms "Swampman," has, of course, a brain which is structurally identical to that which Davidson had, and will thus, presumably, behave exactly as Davidson would have. He will walk out of the swamp, return to Davidson's office at Berkeley, and write the same essays he would have written; he will interact like an amicable person with all of Davidson's friends and family, and so forth.

What if a lightning bolt created an identical Kant, but he wasn't the most boring person alive.

Schopenhauer came to a lot of the same conclusions that Buddha did, in part because he supposedly read some of the first Buddhist texts that had been translated into German. In particular, his ideas about suffering being caused by desire were very similar, although he thought it was impossible to completely elimiate desire. However, the result that these ideas had on his behavior seemed to be quite different. Schopenhauer was a generally bitter person, lashing out at his perceived rivals, and at one point kicking a woman down the stairs who was making too much noise while he was trying to write. The court ordered him to pay her for the rest of their lives. Whereas Buddha, on the other hand, well...became the Enlightened one and all.

Premise: desire leads to suffering. Conclusion: we have to get revenge on Hegel.