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I look at this comic as little more than a failed satire. This means I think that most people won't get it. Although I cannot be certain of the writer's intent, I get the feeling that he did a sloppy job communicating it.
If it undermines the country, it is by suggesting that only intelligent people avoid fighting in the war, leaving such things to those who don't know better. It undermines America by suggesting that there is a class divide between those in the armed forces and those who look to be in the creative class. Because how else would you be able to cull the aimless, TV-watching, beer-drinking members from American society?
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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