I remember reading an article "a while back"** in either GQ or Playboy (yeah - I used to read the articles in Playboy! One of my friends has been a contributor to Playboy on a number of occasions! No! Not as a photographer or as a Playmate… he's an actual writer (as opposed to Mr Snuffleupagus over here…))

…Anyway the gist of the article was that cartoons in America HAVE TO dumb down the collective psyche (animated ones anyway). People won't sit for 30 minutes of overly intellectualized cartoons.

I use that as my moral authority to keep all of my philosophical ideas unillustrated. I can also remember reading something a while back where Hegel discussed the necessity for methadone jokes to lubricate his serious works.

** The article was published over 27 years ago! …I'm so old.

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