Comic #4185: the-grasshopper-and-the-ants

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Panel 1: Child in bed: "Grampa, can I have a story?" Grampa (with glasses and a beard): "This is the story of the grasshopper and the ants."

Panel 2: Text: "Once upon a time, there was a grasshopper and some ants. The grasshopper played his fiddle and danced all summer long, while the ants worked hard."

Panel 3: Text: "Come winter time, there was very little food. The grasshopper died. So did the ants who did most of the work."

Panel 4: Text: "The ants who died spent their entire lives as a sexless slave race, devoted to a distant, all-powerful overlord who thought less of them than her own excretions."

Panel 5: Text: "The grasshopper experienced happiness, but died in sorrow. The ants experienced neither joy nor pain—only monotonous toil. From a naively utilitarian perspective, they came out equal."

Panel 6: Text: "Nearby, humans watched, and imagined themselves superior because their lifespans were one cosmic second longer."

Panel 7: Text: "THE END."

Panel 8: Grampa (looking at child): "Would you like to hear the story of the big bad wolf who improved the gene pool?" Child: "No, please."

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