2012-02-14
Explanation
This comic imagines a post-apocalyptic scenario where the only survivors of a nuclear blast are people at frat parties, since only those who had recently consumed gasoline mixed with energy drinks could withstand the radiation. From this absurd premise, the comic explores what an entire civilization built on fraternity/sorority culture would look like.
The resulting society has beer pong as the national sport, "repetitive wall-shaking vibration" as the national anthem, and the ping pong ball en route to the beer cup as the national bird. Social rules revolve around sexual innuendo ("just the tip"), the legal system bases marriage annulment on whether couples followed party hookup rituals, and the priestly caste's role is to declare drunken encounters "totally not gay." Even their cosmology is bro-fied: "On the first day the Lord created Bros. On the second day He created Hos."
The comic then notes it took "thousands of years before humanity regained its footing," showing a Galileo-like figure declaring heliocentrism while quoting the ancients' scholarly wisdom: "who gives a shit?" The final panel observes that "we still have to live with their legacy," proposing a sticker on every scientific textbook reading "Dude, you could make a bong out of this." The comic is an extended satire of anti-intellectual party culture, imagining it as the foundation of an entire civilization and tracing its absurd consequences through every social institution.