Hooray for Pokey!!

Sort of an homage to this comic:
http://www.yellow5.com/pokey/archive/index396.html
And Pokey the Penguin in general. I read that comic around 20 years and somehow always remembered the phrase "Suddenly, Time Passes". Possibly the most metaphysically philosophical phrase to ever be written in a webcomic, and amazingly, the Pokey the Penguin comic is still running today.

seriously though why did we even bother industrializing if we weren't going to share in the gains that it made??

Panel 1 is a depiction of Neanderthals in the Shanidar Cave, in particular the "Shanidar 1" specimen, which showed a large number of old injuries and disabilities in the individual. The fact that they had lived for so long showed that the Neanderthal community cared for their members even when they were no longer "useful" physically to society.
It's kind of hard to imagine going back and showing the Shanidar Neanderthals all the gains we've made as a society to produce enough food for everyone, and yet people still go hungry. Then again, imagine showing him Nintendo Switch. I bet he'd love Nintendo Switch, so it's really a wash.

"on second thought, the entire history of philosophy is stupid."

As for myself, what causes the most happiness is being rude to customers.

A lot of words come to us from ancient Greek schools of philosophy (stoic, cynic, skeptic, etc). None of them are is far off from their original definition as "epicurean", which seems to sort of mean rich people who indulge in luxury and pleasure. Epicurus believed the road to happiness was more about restricting your desires, living in simple moderation, and having good friendships. This nerd on YouTube explains it pretty well, if you are interested in more. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pVpDOfTHLKg

The fourth little piggy built his out of leftist infighting, and the wolf was finally defeated.