George Carlin accurately diagnosing the core reason our species is failing in less than 2 minutes (interview)
This was in 1992. I like how George's example, that we only help one another after a flood, no longer even applies in the US, as you have people arguing some people from some places shouldn't be helped even after a natural disaster.
Love George Carlin. Love this explanation. The fact remains that vagina shaped missiles are just not aerodynamically feasible.
Yeah I kind of hate that last part in the clip. It's like when people say a skyscraper is "phallic" by design...as if it could be any other shape. Are pencils phallic, too? It's weird to me when people apply sexuality to non-sexual design
You could make curtain-blocks, or enclosures with a park inside, I guess.
It's how we evolved. Not a lot to say about it.
"Is everybody okay? Let's get something to eat."
It would take me a hundred times longer to explain my politics. George was a genius.
I had an aunt who told me as a small child not to feel bad or give a dollar to homeless people because they're "bad people who deserve to starve."
She died wealthy as a former J&J executive. What a fucking train wreck of a society where people like that get to live a life of gluttony for their dedication to private profit and schadenfreude.
Our values are wrong. Our values are disturbing.
our societal values are distubing and aerodynamics allows for a specific subset of architecture for the shape of an item intended to be thrust through the atmosphere at mach 5 :/ yes
I had an aunt who told me as a small child not to feel bad or give a dollar to homeless people because they’re “bad people who deserve to starve.”
holy shit. that makes my relatives callous indifference look outright benign.
Was she hurt by a hobo as a child? fuck..... what does it take to judge people like that.
Well, at least she died.
Did I get it right? Rockets and bullets are formed like penises because men's sexuality?? Fuck off with aerodynamics I guess.
It checks out, how else am I gonna cum as fast as I do?
George Carlin was a great guy, terrific comedian, and pretty smart.
But nothing informs me more of someone's else's immaturity than holding him up as source of true wisdom.
He was always a simplistic, self-serving, a deeply cynical nihilist that went for the edgiest takes. So of course the internet loves him. But for people that are actually interested in solving problems rather than spending their lives removed about it them, his words are empty.
We know the world sucks. Carlin had nothing to say about actually addressing it.
What is your take on Bill Hicks?
I would have been interested to know their opinion on what they consider true wisdom, but the thinly veiled ad hominem in their response then made me lose that interest.
Few comedians rise to the level of philosophers and notable social commentators, but I'd count Bill Hicks among them.
I firmly disagree.
He was a student of humanity and it's hilarious attempts at communication.
Read his books. He's deconstructs so much about communication and criticises systems that deploy twisted communication to achieve their shallow ends.
Carlin criticized the church before most of the public was aware of their horrible record on protecting victims. He criticized the right and it's fetish for fetuses but two fucks for living babies.
The world sucks, Carlin reinvented himself from his first foray into comedy as the Hippy Dippy Weatherman and realized that creating new criticism was a challenge worth his focus, and committed to creating all new material for each special.
I'm sad that you only see this, it's a superficial take on genius.
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Eh. His interpretation of human nature is incorrect.
Humans are tribal, just like our Chimp relatives. We form very close bonds with family and tribe.
However, there is a ton of competition within the tribe for social status. And massive competition with other tribes, even if in the humans case, trade is possible. Trade enables individuals and tribes as a whole to compete more effectively.
Cooperation is only inherent with direct family. Outside of that, it's a means of competition.
That is human and ape behavior.
Not sure why you're being down voted, as I find it an interesting point to make, even if I agree with George's conclusion that the balance between competition and cooperation within our species is way out of wack.
Unfortunately very true. When we had the fires in August, it was amazing how many people here did nothing but speculate and complain about conspiracies, and didn’t pitch in to help, or criticized the newly homeless as if they suddenly chose to be a social problem in everyone else’s backyards.