Comic #6793: peace-2

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Panel 1:
Person 1: Dad, how have you become so peaceful in old age?
Person 2: Oh, that’s easy. The key is to interpret your own cynicism as a source of knowledge.

Panel 2:
Person 2: That way everything bad in your life - everything that hurts - can be reframed as a measure of your wisdom.
Caption: The darker life appears, the brighter my mind seems!

Panel 3:
Person 2: I haven’t learned a new thing in 20 years because all I have to do is consult my existing model of reality as perpetual desolation fraught with conspiracies and I can convince myself I’ve gotten to the bottom of things!
Person 1: Do you have any idea how relaxing it is to be able to write off all countervailing beliefs as the work of naive nincompoops?

Panel 4:
Person 2: Everyone seems stupid to me, especially people who know what they’re talking about!
Person 1: Nevermind. Please, please go back to being quietly condescending.

Panel 5:
Person 2: Right on, you generation of cuties.

(Source: smbc-comics.com)