Oh, great - now you make me one of the lucky 10,000 to discover this today and there goes a half hour down the existential rabbit-hole - too much fun!

(srsly, good reading, thx!)

What I’ve never understood with this comic is if the author admires philosophers or is mocking them. They frankly come off as a bit kooky and out of touch with reality. Like your drunk uncle at Thanksgiving.

I'd venture it is a fellow former philosophy major having fun with it, so some of both.

Steve Martin followed a similar path, philosophy major to comedy with a flair for the absurdity of life -- followed to the (il-)logical conclusion...