>>81729606>>81731553People look at comics like these and go
>wow, was he ever spot on at predicting the futureBut aside from the one explicitly about his dad being worried about Calvin's generation (
>>81731865), as half-joking half-not-joking gag, most of these are written in the present tense. People forget that a lot of the societal problems we see today are mere manifestations of older, nigh universal problems of the human condition. People have always been attracted to conflict. They have always blamed others over themselves. Even the worried about the future gag is old as shit. The modern American political shit show and tumblr may not have existed 10 years ago, but some years before that things like them did, if something like them didn't exist right then has simply been forgotten by people's poor collective memory.
Calvin and Hobbes is great because it's a universal lens into the human condition through the brattiness of an imaginative child whose stuck between his own self absorption and a nagging feeling that there's something wrong with how the world is.
