If a picture tells a thousand words, a Sunday cartoon can sum up my abandoned MA thesis….

Half a lifetime or so ago, I was enrolled in a Master of Arts by thesis course, which I eventually abandoned – hence my proud boast of being a post grad dropout. Nietzsche, Hegel and the End of History all seemed so intriguing to me back then.

But this Sunday cartoon strip from Calvin and Hobbes says much better than I could, if I had bothered to persevere with my MA, what the End of History and all our materially affluent suburban first world lives are all about.