This is my favorite xkcd ever and is drawing a strong reaction from me, since gossip is the one topic that unifies people who otherwise vocally dislike what their peers may study or pursue. Seriously, if one more person finds out I like math and says “Oh, god, I hate math,” I am going to sock that person. The same goes for the next person who says “Oh, jeez, an English major, what’s that good for?”

You know what it’s good for? Keeping your brain alive and connecting to humanity at any point in history and in any country or culture in the world, that’s what. Failing to draw sharp-sided lines in the sand by finding an objective definition for everything, failing to declare total certainty about life’s most unknowable concepts, realizing that sometimes phrases can evoke certain ineffable human feelings better than anything else, and drawing analogies to unify or illustrate, that’s goddamned what.

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