[0089] Woo Has A Dream
└ posted on Thursday, 27 August 2009, by Novil
This strip is a tribute to Martin Luther King’s famous “I have a dream” speech which he hold 45 years ago, on 28 August 1963, in front of the capitol in Washington D. C.
- Woo: I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.
- Woo: It is a dream deeply rooted in every living being.
- Woo: I have a dream that one day mankind will rise up and live out the true meaning of its binomial name Homo sapiens: “The cultivated man, wise to know and bold to perform, is the end to which nature works.”
I have a dream that one day on the green hills of Wisconsin, the sons of passionate hunters will get rid of their spring traps and sit down to watch a group of young foxes playing.
I have a dream that my cubs will one day live in a world where they will not be judged by the sales price of their pelt, but by the agility of their paws.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day even the country of Brazil, a country sweltering with the heat of its burning rainforests, sweltering with the heat of corruption, will be transformed into a society of conservationists.
I have a dream that one day, over there in China, with its dreadful fur farms, with its dirty factories poisoning plants, animals and people; one day right over there in China, little Han boys and little Tibetan girls will be able to join hands in a country in which every creature is treated with respect.
I have a dream today!
I have a dream that one day mankind will stop discharging raw sewage into rivers and overfishing the sea, so that George W. Bush’s great words will finally become true and human beings and fish will be able to coexist peacefully.
- Woo: This is our hope. This is the faith that I go back to the North with. And if man is to be creation’s crowning glory, this dream must become true!
![[0089] Woo Has A Dream](/comics/2009-08-27-[0089]-woo-has-a-dream.png "[0089] Woo Has A Dream")
Why are the comments not working on the last strip?
I would answer the “object continuity” question the same way I answer all those annoyingly “profound” questions: “Who gives a damn?” Why should I care if it’s the same broom or not if it sweeps the floor the same? Why should I care whether or not you want to call the sound of a tree falling “sound”? As I hinted earlier, I generally feel that the more “profound” a question is, the more irrelevant it is.
Thought I’d come back here to comment on this.
This is actually remarkably similar to a philosophy I started taking somewhere between 5-10 years ago. I called it “harmony of the three Ms”:
Man,
Machine,
And Mother Nature.
Man with Man.
Man not abandoning Machine. (Technology is cool! It doesn’t have to be mutually exclusive with nature as many seem to think. Ideally, it works with nature!)
And Man respecting and taking care of Mother Nature. (Which is the largest problem we currently have, though the other two are rather important still.)
One can dream…
A good sentiment. Also that deer in panel 2 is beautifully drawn. Makes me hungry. 😛
@ Douglas:
And, unfortunately for us, our home country hasn’t changed a bit in these 6 long years of darkness.
i vote Wol for president of the world.
I share that dream.