Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion, party, union, club, association, neighborhood improvement committee I have no interest in any of it. Now matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. I have always viewed it from a safe distance, knowing I don’t belong it doesn’t include me, it never has. The decay and disintegration of this culture is astonishingly amusing if you are emotionally detached from it. And that is, of course, precisely what I find so amusing: the slow circling of the drain by a once promising species, and the sappy, ever-more-desperate belief in this country that there is actually some sort of “American Dream, “ which has merely been misplaced. I think the human game was up a long time ago (when the high priests and traders took over), and now we’re just playing out the string. I frankly don’t give a fuck how it all turns out in this country-or anywhere else, for that matter. They’re talented and funny people, but they’re nothing more than cheerleaders attached to a specific, wished-for outcome. They’re looking for solutions, and rooting for particular results, and I think that necessarily limits the tone and substance of what they say. Listening to the comedians who comment on political, social, and cultural issues, I notice most of their material reflects an underlying belief that somehow things were better once and that with just a little effort we could set them right again. I’m happy to tell you there is very little in this world that I believe in. The first two areas will speak for themselves, but concerning the “big world,” let me say a few things. Without having actually measured, I would say this book reflects that balance very closely. The third area is what I call the “big world”: war, politics, race, death, and social issues. The second source, as with most comedians, has been what I think of as the “little world,” those things we all experience every day: driving, food, pets, relationships, and idle thoughts. The first is the English language: words, phrases, sayings, and the way we speak. “For a long time, my stand-up material has drawn from three sources.
I decided to just lay back and relax today…and re-read George Carlin’s Brain Droppings… I just had to share his preface with you folks, it’s lovely:
I’ve seen some pretty terrible things happen, thanks to “belief”. Nothing wrong with believers per se, and I’m not talking only about religious believers by the way, but political believers, ideological believers, scientific believers just generally people who somehow always believe that what they believer is “real”… and that’s fine, until they want you to believe what they believe…then problems can begin.
I’ve lived most of my life with “believers”.
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