Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for November 16, 2014
Transcript:
Calvin: "I've been thinking, Hobbes" Hobbes: "On a weekend?" Calvin: "Well, it wasn't on purpose..." Calvin: "I believe history is a force" Calvin: "Its unalterable tide sweeps all people and institutions along it's unrelenting path. Everything and everyone serves history's single purpose" Hobbes: "And what is that purpose?" Calvin: "Why, to produce ME, of course! I'm the end result of history" Hobbes: "You?" Calvin: "Think of it! Thousands of generations lived and died to produce my exact, specific parents, whose reason for being, obviously, was to produce ME" Calvin: "All history up to this point has been spent preparing the world for my presence" Hobbes: "Hmm, 41/2 billion years probably wasn't long enough" Calvin: "No I'm here, and history is vindicated" Hobbes: "So now that history's brought you, what are you going to do?" TV: "Ooh, you wascawwy wabbit!
You don’t have to go back very many generations before you find that you have more ancestors than the number of people who’ve ever lived. And they all come down to you.