{"id":106170,"date":"2018-07-29T14:01:29","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T21:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=106170"},"modified":"2018-07-29T14:01:29","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T21:01:29","slug":"the-philosophy-of-calvin-and-hobbes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/29\/the-philosophy-of-calvin-and-hobbes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Philosophy of Calvin and Hobbes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child (around 9 years old-12 years old), I grew up on the comic book, &#8216;Calvin and Hobbes&#8217; (written and illustrated by Bill Watterson). Almost 20 years later (I&#8217;m 30 years old now), I actually appreciate it MORE! I never realized quite how philosophical it was&#8211; (Calvin and Hobbes is an homage to the protestant theologian John Calvin and Thomas Hobbes):<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/calvin-and-hobbes-1.pdf\">calvin and hobbes 1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Morals, ethics, Composition, Philosophy, and Human Psychology of Calvin and Hobbes <\/p>\n<h2>Beauty is relative<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/beauty.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>What does it mean to be \u00e2\u20ac\u0153cool\u00e2\u20ac\u009d?<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/cool-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/cool-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/cool-3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Live life to the fullest<\/h2>\n<p>Life with danger and adventure, not stupefying safety:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/danger.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Take risks, and live life on the edge!<\/p>\n<h2>Being clever!<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/pro-noun.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>On Money<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/money.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Minimalist story telling<\/h2>\n<p>Also the ability for kids to be creative and innovative on their own!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/godzilla.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>On war and peace<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/war-peace.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>On the futility of weapons:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/baloon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Surrealism<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/safari.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/water-melt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/fork.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Innovative creative storytelling<\/h2>\n<p>Inside the mind of a child. As adults we should think more creatively \u00e2\u20ac\u201d like children !<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/film-noir.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/crocodile.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Dynamic motion<\/h2>\n<p>Love the compositions <\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/puddles.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/speed.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/baseball.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Arabesque \/ curve composition:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/curve-ball.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Speed:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/race.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Relativity:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/wagon.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>On freedom and liberty<\/h2>\n<p>Funny commentary on oppression and censorship, freedom and opportunity:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/freedom.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Why isn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the world unfair in my favor?<\/h2>\n<p>We don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t mind that the world is unfair, but we want it to be unfair in our favor!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/unfair.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Dictatorship vs democracy<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/dictator.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Simple happiness<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/simple-joy.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>The joy of doing \u00e2\u20ac\u0153nothing\u00e2\u20ac\u009d (sometimes the best way to spend your time is precisely to do nothing):<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/nothing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>On being indignant on your own mistake<\/h2>\n<p>Or not admitting when you were wrong, or when you made a mistake. Or blaming others:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/jacket.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Yes\u00e2\u20ac\u009d vs \u00e2\u20ac\u0153No\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/good-yes.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Modify the rules so you can win!<\/h2>\n<p>Live life according to your own self-made rules!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/golf.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t add guilt<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/guilt.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Quiet break in the dialogue and panning out (frame 3):<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/theism.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Physical versus literal attributes<\/h2>\n<p>We should describe people via their personality, not how they look!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/describe.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Make things fun for kids to get them to do what you want<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/monkey-head1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Play along:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/eat-tiger.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Entitlement<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/privilege.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Many Americans wanting more of the pie, for nothing?<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/pie.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Our expectations are always in comparison:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/oliver-twist.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Deceptive advertising<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/coke.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Kids being mischievous is good!<\/h2>\n<p>Perhaps good for their creativity and ingenuity?<\/p>\n<p>I did this too as a kid at age 2\/\/ my mom told me it was my first lie. I said, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Samchon (uncle) did it!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/toilet.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Create a new category via fusion<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/stamped.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>The innovative ideas of children<\/h2>\n<p>How to take a bath, faster and more \u00e2\u20ac\u0153efficiently\u00e2\u20ac\u009d:<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/toilet-bath.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>manipulate others with psychology<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/niagara.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Turn boring things fun by making it into a game!<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/fly.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Women centric<\/h2>\n<p>Changing gender norms, in the 1980s!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/wall-street.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Imperialism and colonialism<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/imperial.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>On the rat race<\/h2>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/rat-race.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n<h2>Disappointment from our fantasy and expectation and reality<\/h2>\n<p>Psychology, \u00e2\u20ac\u0153affective forecasting\u00e2\u20ac\u009d. We forecast how something we do will emotionally affect us&#8230;but we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re usually wrong! For example we think if we buy a new car, home, camera, phone, gadget, clothes, etc \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it will bring us lasting joy; but it never does!<\/p>\n<figure>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ekizz.files.wordpress.com\/2018\/07\/snorkel.jpeg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was a child (around 9 years old-12 years old), I grew up on the comic book, &#8216;Calvin and Hobbes&#8217; (written and illustrated by Bill Watterson). Almost 20 years later (I&#8217;m 30 years old now), I actually appreciate it MORE! 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