Oh, Calvin, I know a six-year-old doesn’t want to hear it, but patience. You’re in 1992, and in another 25 years both you and the times will be just right for your propensities…
Calvin, unbridled greed and conspicuous consumption of wealth is still here. It’s just that those who crave it are no longer willing to work for it. They want the government to steal it from those who have and give it those who want it.
The “get ahead by any means” has eliminated working for it
It all started when you were not allowed to spank your child or to keep scores at their games! Todays children can be PROUD at being failures! Russia, The Orient, Europe teach their kids to be the BEST, we are happy with mediocrity. If you can say your kid was not shot today at school or kidnapped while walking to or from school.. Then that kid is happy and content! I am still waiting for that massive blackout where cell phones can not be charged… what will our children do…..
Our view of society is usually the result of our perspective more than the result of what we actually see. Like all the other times in most of living memory, the “Me Decade” was a television phenomenon.
I have an inkling of what Calvin is going through. I was a little to young for the 60’s. All that sex, drugs and rock & roll was only a spectator event for me. …sigh.
Don’t worry Calvin, you didn’t miss unbridled greed or conspicuous consumption. If they seemed to be momentarily on the decline, they’ve long since come roaring back.
Someone who does not suffer from excessive greed is the author Bill Watterson, he cancelled Calvin and Hobbes in its prime. It is estimated if he started the comic up again with associated merchandise he could earn in excess of $200 million.
BE THIS GUY over 1 year ago
The 1980’s were the Al Franken decade. No reason the 1990’s can’t be the Calvin decade.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wyoaOZW7rTo&t=28s
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codycab over 1 year ago
How about the people who were consumed by all the things that Calvin said? That’s a better question.
Templo S.U.D. over 1 year ago
bummer, Calvin
C over 1 year ago
You’re the wrong gender to get in on that ethos
GeorgeInAZ over 1 year ago
Oh, the Me Generation is still with us. It’s perpetual. Look at DC and the elites. John Kerry and Joe Biden are some of the poster children.
Bilan over 1 year ago
Unbridled greed? Conspicuous consumption of wealth? Get-ahead-by-any-means? The FBI just squashed that at Mar-a-Lago.
Alexander the Good Enough over 1 year ago
Oh, Calvin, I know a six-year-old doesn’t want to hear it, but patience. You’re in 1992, and in another 25 years both you and the times will be just right for your propensities…
rentier over 1 year ago
True, they cannot end my life, before I have really lived! It’s not fair!!
The dude from FL Premium Member over 1 year ago
It’s still there!
Zykoic over 1 year ago
Human nature transcends ideology.
Yontrop over 1 year ago
Don’t worry Calvin; the future awaits.
SNVBD over 1 year ago
Donald J. Calvin?
Susan00100 over 1 year ago
Calvin, meet Donald J. Trump—the REAL exemplar of unbridled greed!!
The Reader Premium Member over 1 year ago
Sadly, he really did last for only a decade!
VegaAlopex over 1 year ago
Calvin should try to be a cog of the corporate state.
Purple People Eater over 1 year ago
I wasn’t aware that unbridled greed, the conspicouous consumption of wealth, and the get-ahead-by-any-means credo had ever left us.
Frog-on-a-Log Premium Member over 1 year ago
Hobbes cracked me up in the last panel!
johnjoyce over 1 year ago
Didn’t anyone else think of Gordon Gekko: “Greed is good.” ?
SunshineDaydream over 1 year ago
I come to GoComics to get away from all the political comments…please.
dflak over 1 year ago
It’s baaaack, Calvin. Bigger and “better” than ever.
Zebrastripes over 1 year ago
Why would anyone follow the lead of a traitor, a confirmed liar, and a fascist?
jagedlo over 1 year ago
to answer Calvin’s statement in the third panel…yes, they can and they often have!
mgl179 over 1 year ago
Calvin, unbridled greed and conspicuous consumption of wealth is still here. It’s just that those who crave it are no longer willing to work for it. They want the government to steal it from those who have and give it those who want it.
The “get ahead by any means” has eliminated working for it
yangeldf over 1 year ago
Calvin was there to watch the boomers pull that ladder up behind themselves
tripwire45 over 1 year ago
The “Me Decade” never left.
mckeonfuneralhomebx over 1 year ago
It all started when you were not allowed to spank your child or to keep scores at their games! Todays children can be PROUD at being failures! Russia, The Orient, Europe teach their kids to be the BEST, we are happy with mediocrity. If you can say your kid was not shot today at school or kidnapped while walking to or from school.. Then that kid is happy and content! I am still waiting for that massive blackout where cell phones can not be charged… what will our children do…..
flagmichael over 1 year ago
Our view of society is usually the result of our perspective more than the result of what we actually see. Like all the other times in most of living memory, the “Me Decade” was a television phenomenon.
IshkaBibel1 over 1 year ago
The Al Franken Decade
rshive over 1 year ago
Well, yeah. Responsibility can be really dull.
KEA over 1 year ago
It’s back with a vengeance but confined to a precious few
Daltongang Premium Member over 1 year ago
Now THIS is the kid that Lila should have adopted. They are so alike it is scary.
vaughnrl2003 Premium Member over 1 year ago
I have an inkling of what Calvin is going through. I was a little to young for the 60’s. All that sex, drugs and rock & roll was only a spectator event for me. …sigh.
goboboyd over 1 year ago
Goal achieved Watterson’s little dude.
amanbe3 over 1 year ago
Wow, did those comments go south in a hurry!
Holden Awn over 1 year ago
Not to worry, Calvin, Identity Politics is alive and well.
mistercatworks over 1 year ago
Well, you could move to Texas (or some other equally laissez-faire state).
John Jorgensen over 1 year ago
Don’t worry Calvin, you didn’t miss unbridled greed or conspicuous consumption. If they seemed to be momentarily on the decline, they’ve long since come roaring back.
g04922 over 1 year ago
Oh, Calvin, there are plenty of “Me’s” around. And it is ALL about YOU.
Dreaming in Alola over 1 year ago
If it were up to you, Calvin, you’d have a “me century”.
BiggerNate91 over 1 year ago
It’s amazing at how well and how poorly some of these strips age.
Omniman over 1 year ago
Relax Calvin, none of that stuff is even slowing down, let alone gone.
Malcome1 over 1 year ago
It’s alive and well here Calvin. You just wait 30 years.
Ka`ōnōhi`ula`okahōkūmiomio`ehiku Premium Member over 1 year ago
Calvinattitude! Didn’t we vote for that in 2016?
Mark DeMist Premium Member over 1 year ago
Calvin really needs a MAGA hat. He’s a natural.
liberalnlovinit over 1 year ago
Mitch McConnell as a young boy. Especially the get ahead by any means credo…
JoeMartinFan Premium Member over 1 year ago
“Calvin stole that idea from me…Al Franken!”
Realimaginary1 Premium Member over 1 year ago
Because I used to love me, but it’s all over now!
hagarthehorrible over 1 year ago
Love the sympathic sarcastic comments from Hobbes.
Tossle Premium Member over 1 year ago
Someone who does not suffer from excessive greed is the author Bill Watterson, he cancelled Calvin and Hobbes in its prime. It is estimated if he started the comic up again with associated merchandise he could earn in excess of $200 million.
dimndno over 1 year ago
I liked the “Me Decade” better than the “Decade of Al Franken.”
Otis Rufus Driftwood over 1 year ago
Hobbes, this is an eternal struggle in our world.