Hard Times Create Philosophers Cycle

HARD TIMES CREATE British philosophers British philosophers CREATE GOOD TIMES GOOD TIMES CREATE French philosophers You Are Here French philosophers CREATE HARD TIMES

A four-panel cycle shows historical scenes connected by the captions “HARD TIMES CREATE,” “CREATE GOOD TIMES,” “GOOD TIMES CREATE,” and “CREATE HARD TIMES,” with British and French philosophers placed around the loop. The joke suggests that philosophers emerge from hardship, create good times, and then good times eventually produce philosophers who create new hardship; “You Are Here” marks the current position in the cycle. EN: A four-panel cycle shows historical scenes connected by the captions “HARD TIMES CREATE,” “CREATE GOOD TIMES,” “GOOD TIMES CREATE,” and “CREATE HARD TIMES,” with British and French philosophers placed around the loop. The joke suggests that philosophers emerge from hardship, create good times, and then good times eventually produce philosophers who create new hardship; “You Are Here” marks the current position in the cycle.

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