on political apathy :)

• calvin: when i grow up, i'm not going to read the newspaper and i'm not going to follow complex issues and i'm not going to vote.
• hobbes: ...
• calvin: that way i can complain that the government doesn't represent me.
• hobbes: ...
• calvin: then, when everything goes down the tubes, i can say the system doesn't work and justify my further lack of participation.
• hobbes: an ingeniously self-fulfilling plan.
• calvin: it's a lot more fun to blame than to fix them.