They’re planning armageddon.
The floating text for this cartoon reads, “Anyone who thinks the humanities makes people more expansive should spend four minutes in an English department meeting.” It’s too true. I would never go over to the other side of my campus for one of their meetings, but here in the sciences building we have a statistician as chair who bangs through the meeting agenda on a tight schedule and doesn’t permit too much digression. We’re scared of the anarchy in the English department.
I don’t want to try to imagine what’s happening in the Art or Music departments. I’m pretty sure it involves other-worldly horrors and ritualistic chanting.
A cheerful “Cthulhu R’lyeh Ftagn” to you from Liberal Arts!
It’s a confusion between cause and effect. Just because most sensible people will appreciate the value of art does not mean that teaching art will result in sensible people.
Once people have lost their empathy, teaching arts and humanities will not correct the issue. It’s like teaching proper driving rules to someone who actively wants to ram their car into a crowd of innocent people. It’s trying to fix the wrong problem.
As the sensationalist reporter said during the airship crash: ‘Oh, the Humanities’
Speaking of Reason vs. Emotion:
https://static.existentialcomics.com/comics/ReasonandPassion.png
Our founder was a librarian in a college music dept. He remembers an old joke:
boy1: my mom plays piano by ear!
boy2: That’s nothing, my grandpa fiddles with his whiskers!
I’ve gotta’ lighten things up after all the doomscrolling with morons in PZ’s article /2026/03/30/they-never-learn-2/
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All of the offices in the Humanities building have papier-mache jammed into the inner angles of the rooms. If the meetings go on too long you can sometimes hear the hounds trying to get through.