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November 12, 2005
Stantis: War and...Peace? What's That?
Today's Prickly City is priceless. It opens a window into the very simple mind of Scott Stantis.
As Winslow stands perched on a rock with wings strapped to his arms in yet another attempt to fly - apparently to find happiness - Carmen offers up a bit of philosophical advice:
"If you want to be happy, be."
The reason why it's so priceless that Stantis chose this particular quote?
It's from Leo Tolstoy.
That's right, Leo Tolstoy, author of "War & Peace," a man described by wikipedia.com as follows:
"Tolstoy believed that a Christian should look inside his or her own heart to find inner happiness rather than looking outward toward the Church or state. His belief in nonviolence when facing oppression is another distinct attribute of his philosophy. By directly influencing Mahatma Gandhi with this idea through his work The Kingdom of God is Within You [1], Tolstoy has had a huge influence on the nonviolent resistance movement to this day. He believed that the aristocracy were a burden on the poor, and that the only solution to how we live together is through anarchy. He also opposed private property and the institution of marriage and valued the ideals of chastity and sexual abstinence (discussed in Father Sergius). He was a pacifist and vegetarian."
That's right: he's everything Stantis and the neo-cons aren't.
Now maybe - just maybe - the point is that Carmen the Neo-con is throwing the leftist idealogy right back into the face of Winslow. But let's be honest here - we all know Stantis doesn't think like that. He was probably down at the Wal-mart and somebody standing behind him at the checkout line was buying one of those cutesy Hallmark cards, Stantis saw it and thought it was a cute quote, and he worked it into his "It's Saturday, I'm going to half-ass it" strip. That's just how he thinks. Or rather doesn't think.
Bravo, Scott Stantis: just when I think you can't be any more dense, you raise the bar to the stars.
