The stupid cat next door probably was an angel, Snoopy. You don’t mess up with a cat with considerable angelic power. (But maybe he/she was not a Jellicle cat.)
However, there are organizations out there who did not achieve their goals and yet they called themselves winners. Then they blame each other and without unity, the civilization falls.
Lucy was trying to say, “I am what I am, I don’t need praise, I don’t need pity. . . Just give me the hook or the ovation . . . It’s my life . . . etc.”
Good notion. If Calvin’s duplicator worked on Trump, then, I think it should be tested on all humans on Earth. And, let us see how many of us will be left.
Sorry, Calvin. Driving something from average to the highest performance might bring inflation to a nation’s economy.