We No Stupid - We No Calvin

I read Calvin & Hobbes, in fact I have a few compilations of the strips. I especially like the questions put by Calvin to his father. His father is just a regular father, he does not know everything and he doesnt have every answers to every questions. But just so to keep Calvin quiet he would sometimes create his own version of answers.

And everytime I read the newspaper or watch the news, listening to all the craps delivered to us by the government, I cant help feeling like they are treating me like I'm Calvin and they are his father, the way they diminish our thoughts and playing fools with us.

If you put "the People" instead of Calvin, and his father as the "government/politicians" in the following dialog , you'll get my drift.

Calvin: Dad, how come old photographs are always black and white? Didn't they have color film back then?

Dad: Sure they did. In fact, those old photographs are in color. It's just the world was black and white then.

Calvin: Really?

Dad: Yep. The world didn't turn color until sometime in the 1930s, and it was pretty grainy color for a while, too.

Calvin: That's really weird.

Dad: Well, truth is stranger than fiction.

Calvin: But then why are old paintings in color?! If their world was black and white, wouldn't artists have painted it that way?

Dad: Not necessarily. A lot of great artists were insane.

Calvin: But... but how could they have painted in color anyway? Wouldn't their paints have been shades of gray back then?

Dad: Of course, but they turned colors like everything else did in the '30s.

Calvin: So why didn't old black and white photos turn color too?

Dad: Because they were color pictures of black and white, remember?

ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!

We can go insane !