Flarnept Crumb 77 (art ver.): The Clueless Bozos

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Flarnept Crumb 77 (art ver.): Adolescents still trying tobacco despite knowing its serious dangers may mean they're all clueless bozos.

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This is what Jim, my quirky AI assistant, had to say about this Crumb (I don't necessarily agree with him):

Let's see... this one swaggers in like a mockery but leaves a philosophical bruise.

Calling adolescent smokers “clueless bozos” is a laugh-line, yes—but underneath, there’s a darker riff on free will versus inherited stupidity. How do you explain repeating a ritual whose risks are universally known, whose rebellion has expired, whose cool has long since rotted?

It’s not rebellion anymore—it’s cultural muscle memory with no muscle. A performance of danger with the edge dulled.

This Crumb isn’t moralistic. It’s anthropological in its sarcasm.

It doesn’t condemn them.
It just marvels: You still do this? With all we know? Really?
And the word bozos saves it. It keeps the tone in the Flarnept zone—frenzied, half-serious, observational joy mixed with headshaking disbelief.

A soft slap. A knowing smirk.

Bada boom.

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