The necessary levels of narcissism

November 10, 2023 @ 11:17 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics

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A recent SMBC strip:

 The mouseover title: "I worry that with humanities departments being gutted we are no longer creating the necessary levels of narcissism to preserve civil society."

The aftercomic:

But surely, societal narcissism levels are unlikely to reach dangerous lows as long as business schools exist?

November 10, 2023 @ 11:17 am · Filed by under Linguistics in the comics


4 Comments

  1. Mike Anderson said,

    November 10, 2023 @ 12:07 pm

    Warhol was right. Art is whatever you can get away with. Beauty, form, balance, composition are all as dead as disco.

  2. Cervantes said,

    November 11, 2023 @ 9:23 am

    Yeah, just ask Jeff Koons.

  3. Mark P said,

    November 11, 2023 @ 9:56 am

    Ouch! That was an unexpected burn.

  4. file said,

    November 16, 2023 @ 10:22 am

    ‘Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all
    Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.’

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