Doonesbury: Looking for a new predictive belief system?

[TomWilm]

Where you also into the 62-Day Passage of Earth Through Black Hole-Like Rings of Orion Nebula in October 2020?

Then just join the GOP now!

[tblue37]

1. K&R and thanks. nt

[Hekate]

2. OMG this is vintage Doonesbury. Bookmarking.

Thx so much.

[DeSmet]

3. Genius

That's all just genius.

[Haggard Celine]

4. Some people enjoy dreaming about the end of the world.

It gives them home that their life of drudgery and ignorance will end soon. They're hoping that all will be revealed while they're sitting on their couches, watching tv. And they've put all their faith in a man who lies every time he takes a breath. I wish we could find something constructive for these people to do.

[TomWilm]

5. I know too many of those...

They are happy to believe that evil is controlling the world, because the thought of a world where nobody has full control feels even worse!

[Haggard Celine]

7. That's it, right there.

I know a guy, or I used to know him, who believes pretty much everything that Alex Jones says. I asked him why he believed all of that shit and he told me he's been lied to. The media is covering up for the government, he said. He also said that since the government keeps some things secret, that means they're lying to him.

These people start out with the premise that you can't trust the media or the government, so they believe in conspiracy theories. A lot of them haven't had much education and a lot of them also have psychological disorders, but this disorder seems to be contagious.

[planetc]

6. Let Doonesbury be kicked.

[underpants]

8. Classic.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

9. Another great Doonesbury strip

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Thanks. Always nice to see the first two frames. Our paper leaves them out.

(Yeah, yeah, I know...who gets an actual paper newspaper anymore.)