Genius

Sometimes, when I have a quiet moment to think, I imagine what the world might be like if it were some kind of eutopian dream. A world where no one was satisfied with something unless it was the very best that it could be. A world where the dollar was a sacred note which everyone fought, tooth and nail, to relieve us of. Sure, it would be cutthroat and not giving in to our lazy nature would be a struggle in itself, but no one would ever wonder if they were being screwed. No one would ever wonder if they're hard earned money was being used to support something dishonest and sub-par. There would be no middle-man and the quality of living would have nowhere to go but up.

Pride in what we do, the things we create, and the lives we live has lost ground and is continuing to lose ground. If there's an easy way out, we take it. If there's a way to make someone else do the things we don't want to, we do it. It may be that Bill Watterson is speaking only of the comic strip industry, but I think it stems from a much larger social problem that should be the foremost of our daily concerns.