Medieval universities started by teaching rhetoric and logic so that students could understand the material that followed. We don’t teach that sort of thing anymore because it seen as sufficient to turn out cogs for the wheels of commerce. Obedient workers don’t need philosophy or history in order to do as they are told.
I don’t know if it was the Left or the Right that contributed more to gutting the educational system and turning it into a mechanism for turning out mindless cogs for the wheels of commerce. Political discourse is meaningless without some comprehension of language/rhetoric. Ideology is pointless without some basis in philosophy. Understanding of the issues is rooted in history. The problem is not the bits of fluff added to appease one faction or another, it’s all the stuff that was removed because “we don’t really need all that”.
I believe that it’s an official holiday in the state of Puebla where the battle took place but it’s otherwise a pretty obscure holiday in most of the country..
CIDU may turn out to be a guide to other interesting strips. Some of the stuff they complain about is good and some is just normal. I noticed they used the name Dowlatshahi so I’m guessing that is an old complaint.
Maybe to compensate for the loss of Ramon.