Source: https://existentialcomics.com/comic/601
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I don’t care how much of a “sckeptical stance” you want to take. Bruce. Lee. Is. Cool.
Holy shit, in the last panel Pyrrho outed himself as not only a potential racist for racial profiling, but also having a monotheistic belief system! In Greece? Insanity! Which god does he pick! Is it even Greek?!
He’s in a cult, obviously. Since he was part of the Klytidiai, he was probably in the cult of Zeus.
The whole Greek philosophy thing would have gone very differently if they’d had television.
Maybe. We don’t actually know, because most of our information about the skeptics and stoics come from their detractors. Very little of their actual beliefs made it into writing that survived the years.
To be fair, a lot of things would have gone differently. In fact, everything.
I really feel an as a lifelong martial artist and MMA practitioner that Bruce Lee’s fans have made him so insanely uncool that I don’t ever want to hear about him ever again. I am so tired of being told that all of the best fighters in the world would absolutely lose to him one-on-one and he had all these magic powers despite never fighting professionally on camera. He’s an actor first and foremost and he knew he wouldn’t do super well in professional fighting and hence never entered that arena.
I mean the dude basically developed protein shakes and Jeet-kun do which is considered the precursor to modern MMA and jkd students have historically done well in professional fighting. He won a boxing tournament in Hong Kong before his US emigration. Obviously we don’t know how he’d fare in further professional fighting, but I think it is a reach to say he didn’t do it because he wouldn’t do well. He simply wanted to be an actor not a professional fighter.
Yeah, he’s overhyped but he was still a cool dude.
An MMA bro isn’t the best metric for what’s cool or not.
I don’t think Bruce Lee being cool is dependent on whether or not he was a “real” martial artist. He can just be cool as an actor.
I don’t think the comic is implying anything beyond this.
Boooooo!
The type of humour brain-dead Americans find funny.
How would you improve it?
It’s not my favourite of theirs, but I also don’t have to put out a regular comic about philosophers.
It ends on the epitome of cultural landfill, which is pop culture references.
There could have been so many different ways to go about this, like suddenly flipping the roles and the one receiving questions starts asking them.
Or a reverse psychology where the opposite questions start getting asked.
Or even introducing a third character with their own distinctive opinion.
Instead it defaults to “Americans think Asian man doing big moves on big screen funny hurdur”… so that’s what was added. So utterly disappointing it can’t be called comedy.
The whole comic was just a big exercise in silliness, rather than deep humor, such as when the skeptic claimed that the dog “could be a cat”.
But anyway, I would love to see the far superior philosophy-related comics that you have been working on!
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