jung-science
Explanation
This comic depicts a conversation between two people walking through what appears to be a forest or outdoor setting. One person (a skeptic) criticizes people who are "quick to dismiss things" by saying things like "that's just woo" or "those are native traditions, not science," arguing that there is "so much in the human mind that we need to understand."
The other person agrees enthusiastically, revealing they believe in telepathy, astral projection, and that "God is a hot lady sitting on a golden throne" -- essentially a grab bag of unscientific mystical beliefs.
The skeptic then identifies the core problem: such people "don't read books anymore" and are "trying to build a personal philosophy based on a summary of a summary of a summary" -- essentially constructing beliefs from extremely diluted, telephone-game versions of ideas. They ask, "Well, how do you get through to the modern human brain?"
The other person reveals they read "two books a year" and asks, "What more do you want from people?"
The humor lies in the bait-and-switch structure. The opening panel sets up what sounds like a reasonable critique of closed-mindedness in science, but the second panel reveals the speaker is defending transparently absurd beliefs. The comic then pivots to a genuine and sharp observation about how people build elaborate worldviews from extremely shallow engagement with source material. The final punchline -- that reading just two books a year is considered sufficient intellectual effort -- underscores the problem. The comic satirizes both anti-intellectual mysticism and the modern tendency to form strong opinions based on minimal actual reading, touching on themes common in Carl Jung's popular but scientifically questionable legacy (hence the title "jung-science," a play on "junk science").