Foundation Interviews: George Carlin- On Why It's Important To Not Care At All

Source:Foundation Interviews- George Carlin, being interviewed in 2007

Source:The New Democrat 

"George Carlin on why "It's important not to give a shit" - EMMYTVLEGENDS.ORG" 

From Foundation Interviews

Would like to hear more from George Carlin on why he believes it's not important to give a shit ( as he put it ) because that can be interpreted in multiple ways which is exactly what I'm going to do here and lay out what he might be talking about here.

"Nihilism (/ˈnaɪ(h)ɪlɪzəm, ˈniː-/; from Latin nihil, meaning 'nothing') is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that there is no inherent morality, and that accepted moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism may also take epistemological, ontological, or metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or reality does not actually exist.

The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws.[2]

Nihilism has also been described as conspicuous in or constitutive of certain historical periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch;[3] and some religious theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity[4] and many aspects of modernity[5] represent a rejection of theism, and that such rejection of theistic doctrine entails nihilism."

From Wikipedia

Is this what George Carlin meant when he said that it's important to bot give a shit? That he's someone who believed: "That a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.

dogmatic atheists and nihilists could never defend the value of human life"

synonyms: skeptic, negativist, cynic, pessimist; More

historical

a supporter of an extreme Russian revolutionary party c. 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order."

If that's the case, then George Carlin and Donald Trump have plenty in common. They believe there's no such thing as a truth or at least one truth that nothing is real and everything is subjective to what the person at the time says or believes it is. If this is the case as far as what Carlin believes when he said it's important to not give a shit, then I can't respect him for that. Because are such things as rights and wrongs.

I get skepticism and I'm a skeptic myself and alway take the word of reason or the word of faith and trust only what I know and understand including people. Trust people and things that have earned my trust based on their records and my interactions with them. Not looking into their eyes and claiming to read their souls and saying that I trust this person or that person because I've claimed to viewed their soul and see that they are a good person.

George Carlin: 'Balance The Budget'

Source:HBO- Part of George Carlin's 1996 HBO special. 

Source:The New Democrat 

"George Carlin's brilliant idea on how to balance the budget by eliminating prisons...  

From Feral Boy

George Carlin's comedic approach ( that's right, I don't actually think he's serious here ) to balancing the budget reminds me of a Twilight Zone episode where Jack Warden, plays a convicted murderer who is sentenced to life without parole to another planet. A life of isolation where he's sent to another livable planet where he'll have all the food, water, housing, everything that he would need to survive for the rest of his natural life. The catch being that he'll live there in complete isolation without anyone to talk to, but with the freedom to do whatever he wants to on that planet all by himself. For example, he could have sex on this far away distant planet, just by himself.

George Carlin's solution to criminal violence

Put all the violent criminals together in one state after you forcefully removed all the decent people there and let the violent criminals beat the hell out of each other and even kill each other, just as long as they're not hurting or killing anyone else. Which is sort of like my liberal approach to personal freedom which is allowing for people to do whatever they want to, just as long as they're doing it to them self or to another consenting adult.

I'll give Carlin an A for interesting ( or should that be a I for interesting, me and my spelling ) the problem is that we have a Fourth, Fifth, and 8th amendments to our Constitution. As much as Carlin and I'm sure some of his supporters at least also disagree with this, people in Kansas or whatever rural state you want to use are not just people, but also Americans and therefor have the same constitutional rights as people from San Francisco, Boston or New York. Even if they're farmers and their parents gave them two first names, because they couldn't decide on a single first name to give them.

George Carlin's solution to sex crimes

I gotta go along with George Carlin's solution when it comes to sex crimes. If these assholes need to have sex so much in a nonconsensual way, put them all together in some institution and let them do that. They can screw each other until their dicks fall off and even rape each other. Just as long as they're not screwing or raping our women and girls. I could go along with that.

George Carlin's solution to drug addiction

How about we deport all of them to Holland or Portugal and they can get as high as New York skyscrapers all they want to and drive while they're high and drunk, just as long as they're not able to hit anyone who isn't high or drunk and by enlarge lives a responsible life. I could see why Holland or Portugal would have a problem with us sending them our drug addicts, but it might be worth looking into.

George Carlin's solution to crazy people

How about we send all of our mental patients to that planet that Jack Warden was sent to on that Twilight Zone episode, which might just be Arizona or New Mexico and they can live out of this world as much as they want, just as long as they can't hurt anyone who is not also crazy. The problem with that is we have a lot of crazy people who aren't in mental institutions or even in prisons because our mental institutions are already overcrowded and a lot of these people already vote.

Balancing the Federal budget in Washington is like swimming to London from New York, because you're too cheap to buy a plane ticket or take a boat, I'll believe it when I see it. And when that happens peace will have broken out between Israel and Palestine and people will be flying pigs because they don't want to buy plane tickets. 

Washington right now doesn't have much ability to even do the simple things that they're currently required to do by statue and by the Constitution like passing a budget and appropriations bills, so why they would they be able to balance a budget when borrowing money from China is so much easier politically. 

George Carlin: On Some Cultural Issues

Source:Anders Jacobson- The Great George Carlin in 1996. 

Source:The New Democrat

"Masterful performance of George Carlin taken from his 9th HBO special "Back in Town". Taped live at the Beacon Theater in New York City, March 1996. [I don't own any rights]"

From Anders Jacobson

I like George Carlin's point about motivation because it would be one thing if you had someone advising to do the right thing because of these reasons and they know what they're talking about because they work in that field and you're a narcissistic, egotistical, arrogant asshole, who believes the planet evolves around you and you're so damn smart you see things in the future that no one else does. ( Take Donald Trump to use as one example )

Source: I Am Awake- The Great George Carlin 

And let's say you're being sued or are under criminal investigation and your lawyer is telling you: "You know what Joe, I really don't think it would be a good idea if you testify and go under oath. Sometimes I'm not sure if you're telling me the truth and I'm your damn lawyer, for God sake! Hell, I'm not even sure if you're being honest with me." And your lawyer motivates you to do the right thing and not take the stand. 

But it's another thing if you're a pro athlete (lets say) and you're in a big game perhaps even playing for the championship and you know exactly what the consequences are if your team wins or loses. Someone in that position will either play their best game or play very well or not. It depends if they're good enough to win the game or not and how badly they want to win that game.

As far as religion

I'm an Agnostic, so don't even think about thinking that you can blame me for either the religious fundamentalism in America from the Christian-Right or Islamic fundamentalism from the Middle East and other places around the world, because I'm Agnostic and I simply don't give a damn about religion.

As a Liberal I believe free choice, free will, free speech, free thinking, individuality, individualism, personal responsibility, the opposites of what even a moderate or social democratic religion would believe in, because religion almost by definition is very collectivist: "This is what's right and wrong, this is how you should live your life, and this is what you should believe." I'm just not down with that ( to use a 1990s expression ) and my idea of morality is about how people treat each other, not about how people treat themselves and live their own personal lives. Those are my moral values which is about treating people the way you want them to treat you.

Stupidity

I just wish this George Carlin performance was ten years later instead of coming out in 1996 and we could see what Carlin thinks about our reality TV and celebrity culture, well culture and seeing reality TV and celebrity culture not just dominate American culture, but now have invaded our politics and government. 

I believe a lot of stupidity in America comes from faddism and the need to feel like you're cool ( I'm sorry, I mean awesome ) that need to be popular and hip consumes practically everything else even our morality. My point earlier about morality being about how we treat each other, instead of what we do personally. Sometimes its considered cool to bully people that you believe are inferior. We see that in high school everyday.

Thanks to celebrity TV (which is what reality TV really is, or perhaps nasty TV is a better term) being nasty and stupid is considered cool and is rewarded everyday. The only smart people that are rewarded are business executives who run companies that produce the products that are considered cool in America. Fashion, new technology, coffee house coffee (to use as examples) but if you're simply just trying to make the world better or at least your small part of it better and you're a very intelligent person, unless you're considered hip and communicate with young people very well, you'll be looked down upon as a nerd who reads too much, spent too much time in school. Love to know what George Carlin would bet saying about our over consuming reality TV culture today.

Baby Boomers

Not a boomer obviously being born in the mid 1970s and I'm not even a son of one. Both of my parents were born in the 1930s and had kids relatively late in life, so I don't have much personal experience with at least who I would call Baby Boomers ( people born in the 1940s and 1950s ) but I've worked with people from this generation and most of my teachers were Boomers. I like to look at them as the entitled generation.

Being born during or just after World War II ( depending on how you define the generation ) and growing up in the 1950s and 60s, as a generation they're like your typical Connecticut Anglo-Saxon Protestant family who've been in this country since the 1700s, who live in the suburbs and started out in life with a million dollars thanks to their father's. They're the spoiled brat generation would be a way to look at them. Growing up during the economic booms of the 50s and 60s and not having to worry about how they were going to pay for college or if they were even going to be able to get into college. But I'll give them credit for taking advantage of every opportunity ever given them and becoming one of if not our most productive American generation's.

Politicians

If you order a cheeseburger and are served a cheeseburger, do you really have any right to expect your cheeseburger to taste like a tunafish sandwich? With politicians it's the same thing you get what you voted for or at least elected. You vote for and elect crooks and liars, don't expect to get Saints instead. 

And this whole deal about not knowing how crooked and lazy the politician was before you voted for that person, is like someone complaining about the apples or oranges that they bought at the store not being ripe enough and being old. If you bothered to look at the fruit that you were buying before you bought that, you would've seen that it wasn't fresh fruit and maybe you should buy something else. 

You don't do your homework when it comes to voting, you end up voting for people you don't know very well and get screwed by them in the process.

Life is what you make out of it. You get yourself a good education, you apply yourself, do the work, make learning and daily thing for yourself and always looking to do things better and make yourself as productive as possible, do your homework to go back to my point about politicians and life in America will be very good for you. At the very least doing these things for yourself and again treating people the way you want to be treated, taking responsibility for your actions to get to my point about morality and that will be your best offense and game plan for success in this country. 

But you don't do these things and expect success and happiness to be given to you and you'll spend a lot of your life waiting for success and happiness.

Carlin Fan: George Carlin- Dumb Slogans

Source:Carlin Fan- Not a fan.

Source:The New Democrat

I get George Carlin's point about ethnic or national pride that we shouldn't look at them as being accomplishments even though I'm sure that there are some Anglo-Saxon ( people of English ethnicity ) families in Manhattan and New England who would disagree with that. For them being born in America is like winning the Super Bowl during your rookie season. Winning a 20 million dollar lottery the first time you ever played the lottery. A lot of these families tend to be born rich to the point they never even have to worry about college or even finishing it because they'll probably have a million dollars or more by the time they hit 21 in life.

But for the 90-99% of us that have to work for a living from the time that we're probably teenagers and looking to buy our first car and not sure how we're going to pay for college because we know our parents can't just write a check to finance that for us and buy us our own car, ethnicity is just about who we're born to, who our biological parents are. Passing the bar exam, or graduating college, getting a promotion at work that we deserve, perhaps becoming an executive, those are real accomplishments in life.

Being born English, Italian, Jewish, Japanese, Latino, African, etc, in America that's just about who our parents are that we have no control over who were given to us. Not something that we ever worked for in life. It's not like we can decide before we're are born that we want to be Italian or Chinese in America and decide that's who we're going to be. As a German-American, I'm all in favor of people being proud of their ethnic people. ( Let's say ) And being proud of what they're community has accomplished in America. And being a member of the largest ethnic group in America as a German, I'm proud of what Germans have accomplished in America. But I'm not proud to be German just because I'm German, but because of what we've done in America and the country that Germany has become post-World War II as one of the greatest liberal democracies in the world.

As far as God Bless America, I'm an Agnostic myself not Lutheran or Catholic as Germans trend to be, so I'm not a fan of that expression. Especially when it comes from politicians especially career politicians who believe they can do whatever the hell they want to ( but I do believe in hell ) because they represent a deeply religious community and believe that if their voters believe they're devoutly religious and moral, that's all they'll need to do get reelected .

But I believe in free speech which covers religion and other personal beliefs and as voters if we don't like hearing that or believe we're getting played by some slick Willy politician who when they say that, we can always hold them accountable and look to see if that politician actually lives by the religion that they claim and doesn't have a handful of mistresses on the side and a fixer to pay them to keep them silent, while they bitch about the so-called immorality of others and then act accordingly.

Pride, whether it's ethnic, national or anything else, should be about what people accomplish themselves or what others have accomplished for themselves that people around them are proud of. Parents being proud their son or daughter graduated college, got married to someone they love and respect, had kids that made them grandparents. Things that we accomplish or that others accomplish around us that make us proud for them. Instead of being proud because of how we born or buying one of the first 5 new I-Phones, or getting 1000 friends on Facebook, when maybe we only personally know 100 of those people and are only in contact we maybe 50 of them. And as far as God Bless America, again we have a First Amendment and that means hearing things we don't like and that doesn't even make sense in many cases.
Source:Carlin Fan

George Carlin: 'Life is Worth Losing- Dumb Americans'

Source:George Carlin- The great comedian George Carlin in 2005.

Source:The New Democrat 

"Life Is Worth Losing - Dumb Americans - George Carlin. From HBO Life Is Worth Losing." 

From George Carlin

Warning! This piece might contain language that may offend people who are still living in the 1950s and forgot to move with the times in America as the rest of country moved forward without them.

Just to say one thing about George Carlin: Goddammit, George Carlin fucking cussed a lot! What the fuck was his fucking problem? What kind of asshole fucking cusses that much? God dammit, he must have been fucking pissed off. 

Not that I would ever tell George C to watch his fucking language, because someone like that who is generally that angry not just at people, but basically an entire country, probably wouldn't like that humor and perhaps not have even understood it. But he might have grasped the hypocrisy from a statement like that.

As far as stupid people in America: not saying we have a monopoly on that compared with the rest of the world. Especially with countries that don't allow women to even drive cars or show themselves in public, who murder people simply for being gay through government force. As well as terrorists who murder people simply for not being Muslim, as well as gay. 

But America might have more than our share of stupid people especially with a region of the country that values their religion over education and knowledge. That alone can create a lot of problems there when people who simply don't respect knowledge and think Jesus or whoever they pray to is all they need. That alone would qualify as stupid thinking, or lack of thinking.

See, people who don't have knowledge tend to be stupid. Knowledgable people tend to be intelligent. The actual definition of intelligent is someone who is having or showing intelligence, especially at a high level. The actually definition of stupid, is having or showing a great lack of intelligence or common sense. Someone who takes America to war over bogus (to be overly generous ) evidence that never existed in the first place, is the classic definition of s stupid decision. Making a decision on no real evidence and information.

Buying stuff (or in many cases junk ) that you simply don't need and are buying it perhaps only because it's a status symbol for you like buying that latest smartphone simply because it's the latest smartphone, even though you bought the latest smartphone last week, would qualify as a stupid decision. Even if it did allow you to be one of the first five people to share that latest purchase on Facebook, Twitter, or perhaps my favorite Google+. Sure! That decision made you look like totally awesome (or whatever ) for an entire five minutes. But now you have two smartphones that you're not using and still paying for both of them.

When you have a country that is as vast and diverse from all sorts of vantage points and not just racially and ethnically, a country that is also as free and individualistic as we are (at least outside of pop culture, where most people look like a clone of the latest hot celebrity ) and then you have an entire population that values their religious and cultural beliefs over knowledge, reason, and science, you're going to have a lot of stupid people. 

America has a lot of people who are literally free to do whatever they want short of hurting innocent people, including deciding to not be educated and not believe evidence and facts. This is why America at times at least can look like a national morons convention where everyone is late, because everyone went to the wrong place for the convention.

George Carlin: Maybe it's Not The Politicians Who Suck?

Source:Meg Rifter- George Carlin on American politicians and the people who elect them.

Source:The Daily Review

"George Carlin's bit on voting and politicians."

From Meg Rifter 

I partially agree with George Carlin on this. Our politicians actually do suck in way too many cases. I think that is obvious when you have a Congress that can’t get its basic responsibilities taken care of like gee I don’t know, funding the government that they are part of, or paying the bills that has been run up on the debt, which is what a debt ceiling extension actually is. Not an agreement to borrow more money, just to pay the interest on the current debt. 

Just the way our politicians treat each other would be an example of political sucking (to mix a political metaphor) is another example of how members of Congress in both parties treat each other. Like the majority not allowing the minority opportunities to offer amendments and other examples like that. But just in case people who aren’t insomniacs actually read this, I don’t want to put everyone else to sleep with what is called in Washington Congressional speak: language that only the House and Senate uses.

I completely disagree with George Carlin on his notion that non-voters have every right to complain. Sure, according to the First Amendment they do, which is all that they need. But for people to be taken seriously, they have to sound credible. And if you’re not doing everything you can to improve government and the least you can do is to bother voting, you can’t credibly complain about politicians who are on office now, because you were too busy complaining, or sitting on your ass at home, or at a coffee-house, perhaps watching celebrity TV all day, getting drunk, masturbating, whatever it might be and not voting. 

Had Democrats bothered to turn out in 2010 and 2014 anywhere near the numbers they did in 2008 and 2012: what Tea Party revolution? Republicans rely on low voter turnout to get elected and reelected. There are still more Democrats than Republicans in America. What Republican gerrymandering if Democrats held onto all of those legislatures and governorships in 2010?

I realize I’m coming at this from a Democratic vantage point, but here’s a newsflash: I’m a Democrat and I’m not saying this to put Republicans down, but Democratic voters don’t have much to complain about when they don’t vote for Democrats. Especially when their reasoning is that they don’t like Center-Left establishment Democrats and that the candidate, or incumbent is not in love with government and doesn’t have a new tax or government program to take care of everyone’s problems for them. Or is not as Far-Left as the Green, or Democratic Socialist candidate. 

Democrats, won back Congress in huge numbers in 2006, because Republicans didn’t bother voting. This works both ways. If you don’t do the very least that you can do to improve government and get the best possible people to represent you, which is bothering to vote and the person you most not rather see wins that office, whose fault is that? All the opposition did was show up and win and beat a party that didn’t bother to vote.

If you don’t like the current field of candidates, run yourself, or encourage someone who you think would be a good candidate to run and then work for that person. Assuming that you caught them when they were drunk, or high, or had a gun pointed at their head (that wasn’t filled with water) and agreed to run for that office. 

But a big reason why we have politicians who suck is because we have voters who suck themselves and maybe we should require all voters to pass a sobriety test, or eye examination before voting. But other reasons why we have politicians who suck is because we have voters in name only. People who are registered to vote, but who don’t bother voting at all. And as a result we get politicians, because of a low voter turnout who would’ve lost badly had we just had a decent voter turnout for that election. Who represent a small faction of the country and wouldn’t have won any other way.

Counter Argument: George Carlin- Politically Correct Language

Source:Counter Arguments- Comedian George Carlin, taking apart political correctness and what he called soft language.

Source:The Daily Review

"A personal point of view regarding a debatable topic. Individual: George Carlin
Topic: Political Correctness Opinion: Political correctness cripples discourse, creates ugly language, and is generally stupid."

From Counter Arguments

Source:Soft- The great comedian George Carlin on political correctness. 

"George Carlin: 'Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners"

From Soft

I probably agree with everything that George Carlin said in this video. Other than the word liberal. Replace liberal with illiberal and Liberals with Illiberal’s and we agree on everything here.

Without Liberals, George Carlin isn’t able to make this video, because Liberals gave us our First Amendment Freedom of Speech rights. It is illiberal fascists on the Far-Left, who have the balls to call themselves Liberals, even though they have more in common with Karl Marx and Fidel Castro, than they do with Jack Kennedy, Tom Jefferson and even Wendell Willkie. Who actually were Liberals, because they believed in liberal values and not illiberal values.

Illiberal fascists are the people who run the U.S. Political Correctness Department on the Left in America. While Liberals, Conservatives, Libertarians and even some Progressives, disobey all of their laws.

It’s not that labels and the truth that are the problem in America. Without them how would know what is real and what is make-believe. How would we know how to refer to each other. I guess we would have to wait for the PCD, or Political Correctness Department to tell us that. Perhaps Ben Affleck will play the Chief of that department in his next movie. Maybe Michael Moore will be his deputy after he’s done with his next film about how so-called White people want create a new American Civil War and kick out all the non-Europeans in the country. And even Europeans who aren’t of British descent and Protestant.

Without the truth and accurate ways to referring to each other, we might as well all go blind and death. Because none of us will know what the hell is going on. The truth is never the problem, it is what leads to the truth that can be. People can only improve once they know what is wrong.

If a Muslim believes that women should be his servant and that the man is always in charge and that women shouldn’t be allowed to work and the whole deal, similar to how many Christian-Conservatives feel today and not just one Muslim, but that is mainstream thought in that culture and a non-Muslim and lets say a non-Muslim of European heritage points that out, how is the person who is accurately critiquing Muslims who believe these things a bigot? All this person is doing is pointing out some negative truths about some Muslims.

If someone is fat and crazy, are you supposed to pretend they got a body of Hercules and are the sanest person around? And perhaps the worst thing about illiberal political correctness is how phony it is. (I’m being really kind) Because it is disguised as tolerance, even though it is the opposite towards people who disagree with them.

Once you hide the truth for fear it might offend people, you become a fascist. And once a society does that, they just threw the First Amendment in the garbage. And as a result the society will regress and become a regressive society and not even a progressive society that political correctness fans claim they want. Because the society will stop progressing, because people won’t know the truth about themselves and how to improve.

“Joey, isn’t a bad student compared with the rest of the class, or is dumb. He just learns slower. And because of that we shouldn’t get him any help, or hold him back, because we don’t want to hurt his feelings.” And that is just one example of political correctness where students are promoted even if they don’t make the grades, because for fear of hurting their self-esteem. And is something that a progressive society and free society can’t afford if they want to continue to make progress.

Dennis Miller Live: Interviews George Carlin (1997)

Source:HBO- The Real George Carlin, talking to Dennis Miller, in 1997.

Source:The New Democrat 

"George Carlin on Dennis Miller" 

From Dennis Miller Live

I’ll give George Carlin credit for one thing when it comes to his military opposition and opposition to use of force: at least he served in the military so he has at least some idea what the hell he’s talking about when it comes to opposing military force. Unlike a lot of these pussies on the Far-Left from Salon, The Nation and AlterNet, who never served a day in their life in the military not even in the reserves. And yet they go out of their way to put down the American military and our involvement in wars. And call our soldiers murderers and terrorists and everything else.

When a pacifist says they are against the use of force, so what, what else is new! What do you think they are going to say: "You know what I’ve been a pacifist all of my life, but I had a dream last night about of the damage that peace and love has done to the country. And now I’m not only in favor of using force and the military, but I think we should bomb any country that doesn’t like cheeseburgers and hot dogs and votes against us at the meaningless United Nations Debating Society.” Of course they are going to say war is no good, evil, immoral, and everything else! Because that is what pacifists do. They oppose violence at all costs.

But with Carlin you get the real thing. He doesn’t like the military at least in how its used and knows from personal experience about what it is like to serve and the costs that come from serving in the military. And the costs of war and not some fringe asshole who speaks out of his ass because their head is always stuck in it. Speaking about things he’s simply not qualified to talk about. 

If you’re going to criticize something, at least have the decency to know about what you’re criticizing. And not just jump on some bandwagon because you think that bandwagon is cool.

George Carlin: Expressions & Sayings

Source:HBO- George Carlin's 1996 HBO Special. 

Source:The New Democrat 

You know how cliche's become cliche's? Because someone comes up with a really simple and hip way of putting something in perspective in a way that even morons can understand. Like "well that is all she wrote". Which could be used for several different situations, but generally used in sporting events when it is clear that the game is over as far as who is going to actually win the game. Someone comes up with a real, gee I don't know (talk about cliche's) nifty way of putting something in its place that everyone can understand.

America has become a cliche country. You see that everyday in our country, culture politics, sports , someone comes up with a clever and new way of doing something or way of talking. Five minutes later it is no longer new because everyone else who wants to be cool, (oh I'm sorry, awesome) ends up doing the same thing or talking the exact same way. The modern America sitcom is a cliche taken from whatever the latest hit sitcom is and now everyone is writing and acting like that.

We are a country of Faddist's. The American religion is Faddism. We do what we believe we need to do to fit in, in life and be like everyone else. So we are cool or awesome too. You want to know why Americans are stereotyped as dumb? I'll tell you anyway, because we don't think for ourselves. We let the latest hipster or hipsters do that for us. Whatever the profession and whatever the lifestyle is. Cloning is not supposed to be biologically possible yet, but you wouldn't know it with so many people looking and talking and acting like everyone else. Faddism is in and individualism is out.
Source:George Carlin

Jesse Taplin: ‘George Carlin On Roosters, Self- Help and Motivation’

Source:Jesse Taplin- comedian George Carlin on what pisses him off.

Source:The Daily Times

“George carlin clips from (2001) George Carlin – Complaints and Grievances”

From Jesse Taplin 

As far as self-help: I’m always in favor of people who try to improve themselves (except when I have to compete with them) just as long as they’re doing it to improve themselves and not just to say: “Hey, I’m reading this book right now.” Just to say that they’re reading it and can claim that they’re in step with whatever the current hot, pop culture offer is. But I think the best self-help is always someone’s very own mirror and they bother to look at it. If you want to improve yourself, look at yourself first and do it honestly. And every honest and intelligent person, especially anyone who is honest and intelligent about themself, will figure out what works for them and what doesn’t. If you want outside help, hopefully you have honest, intelligent people in your life who give a damn about them and listen to them.

Brian Billick who use to coach the Baltimore Ravens had a theory of coaching about what to do when a player screws up and he said: “You can put it gently and say you know what that’s not what I was looking for on that play and hopefully you’ll do better in the future. Or you can tell them: “God dammit, you fucked up buddy”. Just put it on the line and let them know exactly how they messed up: “And this is not what I’m looking for and you’re going to have to be better in the future”. But then tell them how they screwed up and show them what you want done instead. And if they continue to screw up, find a replacement for them.

When you reward failure, you just get more of it. But if you teach and reward success, you get more of that as well. It’s the tough love approach to life that I prefer. Lay it out on the line so you know where you are and then you can adjust.

Self-esteem is only worth as much as its worth, if you have reason to have high self-esteem, then you should have that. But if you’re not doing very well, then you need to know that or have someone show you where you are lacking. So you can figure out what the problem is and improve yourself. And not get overconfident and think you are better than you are. Because that’s how we let ourselves down.

George Carlin: 'Rights and Privileges'

Source:Vimana Rama- The great comedian George Carlin.

"RIP George. What a fantastic mind. Not posting this for monetary gain, only to share my love of the funny. Please support the artists:George Carlin."

From Vimana Rama

Before I go too far into this, I’m an Agnostic and I’m not here to try to convince Atheists to become Agnostic or believers into becoming Agnostic either. Religion is for people who want it or not. Not for people to try to force their beliefs on others and that goes for Agnostics, Atheists or believers. So no, I don’t believe our constitutional rights come from God, even if one exists, again I don’t know if there’s a God, (in case you’re wondering why I’m Agnostic) which is why I don’t believe or disbelieve, but a reason why I don’t believe God gave us our rights, is because God wouldn’t be qualified to give us our rights.

God is not qualified to give us our rights because if he did, they wouldn’t be as great as they are now. They would either be less of them, which of course would be bad, because that would mean there would be more power for government. Not a good thing and of course government would say that, “well we have this power to use on your behalf”. Well my response would be, how come I can’t use the power that you just took away from me, for myself? I would love to hear the answer to that. An example of having too many rights would be the right to take innocent people’s freedom away from them, like the right to kill or hurt people intentionally, or unintentionally.

Another reason why God wouldn’t be qualified to give us our rights, because if he’s so great, why are there so many horrible things in the world? Why so many people starving, why do we have bigotry, we do we have so much poverty, why do we have so much ignorance, in the United States and around the world, how the hell does Rick Santorum and Michele Bachmann ever become qualified to run for President of the United States. Why do have so many disasters, why do we have so many people living under authoritarian rule, especially East of Europe, but also in the Slavic states and so-forth. 

If God was so great, there wouldn’t be so many horrible things going on in the world. We wouldn’t have had to go through slavery in America, we would’ve never of had African slaves or any other slaves, the Jewish Holocaust would’ve never of happened and so-forth. So God didn’t give us our rights, because the people who wrote the U.S. Bill of Rights knew better. 

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Ryan Minor: George Carlin On Individuality

Source:Ryan Minor- comedian George Carlin.

Source:The Daily Times

"I little excerpt from a George Carlin audio book that I wanted to share.

Enjoi!"

From Ryan Minor 

I’m not religious and I don’t want to sound religious or speak in the name of God, even to make a great point, because that would be fake. But the universe created individuals not to be clones of each other or to be just like one superior individual, but for people to be individuals, to be themselves.

In a world that’s dominated by pop culture and celebrity culture, people who talk, think, who dress, who eat as themself, rather than what the so-called hot celebrity is currently doing, that person who acts for themself, is going to stand out and look unique and generally get looked down upon as well. Because they’re not eating or drinking the exact same things as the so-called in-crowd are eating or drinking. They use their own words, or they’re the one person in the crowd who doesn’t have the latest smartphone, not aware of who was the latest person to get kicked off the latest so-called reality show, they can get through an entire day without coffee or coffee house coffee, whatever the thing is.

But, if the universe wanted clones, it wouldn’t have created billions of different people, with their own individual brains and personalities. Just because we have billions of people who apparently can’t think, talk, and act for themselves, doesn’t mean we don’t have individuals. It just means we have billions of people who choose not to be themself for fear of standing out in the crowd and being just a little different from the so-called in-crowd. I think that’s essentially what George Carlin is saying here and I completely agree with him. 

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George Carlin: On The Death Penalty

Source:HBO- George Carlin special.

"George Carlin talks about the death penalty, i didn't see this one up so i thought i might upload it ;] If you like George Carlin, you might want to check out Bill Hicks as well.

Taken from his 'Back in Town' special in 1996

This video belongs to HBO and is used under fair use law."

Source:Seleucid9

You wouldn't be insulted if I take what George Carlin is saying here to be tongue and cheek? I know he's supposed to be a comedian, so of course you are supposed to take everything that he says seriously, (ha, ha) but if he's serious here, he's either so high that he fly to the moon by just flapping his arms. Or, he's so drunk that he put every Irish bar out-of-business and not just in Boston, but every Irish bar in all of New England and perhaps Queens, New York as well. I'm just throwing a thought out there that not everything that Carlin said about the death penalty, was completely serious. 

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George Carlin: 'Honesty & Bill Clinton'

Source:Orgasmic Potato- the great political satirist George Carlin on honesty, perhaps in 1997.

“George Carlin knows where it’s at.” 

From Orgasmic Potatoe

This whole George Carlin routine about American voters and the politicians that they elect and reelect goes to his whole argument about American democracy and government, that we get the government that we deserved based on the people that we elect and reelect.

Americans all the time say they want their public officials to be honest, but let’s be real for a minute and then we can go back to the bullshit: When public officials are honest, they tend to get fired and what do public officials tend to care most about, (again goes to being real) their jobs. Which is exactly why they say one thing to one crowd and another thing to another crowd. They are pro-gun control in big cities and pro-2nd Amendment in rural areas. When they know they need the votes of both groups to get reelected.

And to go to another point about George Carlin’s argument about American democracy and government: our politicians can only be as good as the people that elect and reelect them. When we vote for and elect, good, honest, and intelligent people (which seems to happen about as often as it snows in South Florida in July) those are the folks that we get to represent us.

But when we elect and reelect crooks and liars (which happens every election cycle) those are the folks that are going to represent us. So I ask you: who’s fault is it for all of the corruption in our political system? 

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George Carlin: 'Jon Stewart interviews George Carlin'

Source:George Carlin- being interviewed  by fellow comedian and political satirist Jon Stewart, in 1997 or 99.

"Jon Stewart Interviews George Carlin from HBO 40 Years of Comedy."

From George Carlin:

What separates George Carlin from let's call them other counter-culture satirists and comedians on the left (let's say) who critique American society and culture, is that for one George Carlin is often more right than his other colleagues. But he also doesn't have a political agenda that he's pushing. He's not trying to get government to do this or that for the country. 

Also George Carlin's satire is bipartisan, he doesn't critique politicians in both parties just to look fair, but he critiques politicians that he disagrees with. No mater their political or ideological affiliations.

Carlin is a classical rebel in the sense that he's against the establishment whoever it.  Because he doesn't have a political agenda of his own. His real political message (if he has one) is about education and that the people need to educate themselves and stop reelecting people that keep the same system in place and that we should take responsibility for our own lives. 

Carlin didn't believe in blaming people that we elect and reelect for giving us the system that we have or where we are in life, but the people who elect and reelect the politicians who give us and maintain the current system. It's not Carlin's consistency that I admire so much, but that he's consistently right. 

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C-SPAN: George Carlin- 'Lying Politicians & Words'

Source:C-SPAN- Comedian George Carlin, at the National Press Club in Washington, in 2008. 

"Lying Politicians And Words: George Carlin comments."

From C-SPAN

I never blame, well I should say I never put the most blame (and I'm already sounding like a politician in this piece) politicians who may be very good politicians, but aren't very good public servants, because how did they get their jobs?

Well, its simple they were voted into office, receiving at least one more vote than their opponent in the last election. Election being a key word because the people vote for the politicians they get. So when I hear someone complaining about their Representative or Senator, I want to ask them did they vote for that person or not. And if they say yes, then I say you voted for who you have now. And if they respond well I didn't know this person would be like that in office. Well then I would say you didn't do your homework and you got who you voted for.

Thats the thing about democracy as former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill once said: "Democracy is the worst form of government in the world except for all of the rest." And that when you leave it up to the people to decide we'll have people who'll make bad decisions because they don't know any better.

I'm not blaming democracy for the bad public servants that we get but I'm blaming the people who vote for the bad politicians that we get because we as a country have to deal with the bad decisions that these bad public servants make at least at the Federal level. That it's not so much democracy that we need but what we really need is a smart liberal democracy.

People who just don't vote but people who know how to vote and vote for the right people who'll protect our freedoms and not try run our lives for us by trying to pass new restrictions on how we should live our own lives. That what we really need is a smart democracy with smart people voting for good smart people who actually know what the hell they are doing. And what public service is about which is about representing the people. And not the small interest groups who bankrolled their campaigns for them.

Even though I'm a Liberal I really do believe in that old fashioned value of personal responsibility. That we get what we pay for and must deal with the consequences of our own decisions. So when it gets to voting that means we get who we voted for and if you don't like who you voted for, then don't vote for that person in the future. And vote for a good person instead or don't vote at all but don't repeat your own past mistakes.

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