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Satire is one of the few things in this world that really cuts straight into the absurdity of humanity. I wish the solutions were as easy as pointing out what a clown car this planet is.
Things, ideas, movements and people are only as important as people make them to be.
If enough people believed that only wearing a sock over your genitals was acceptable ... people would only wear a sock over their genitals.
When you start looking at the world in this light and analyse what we decide on what is important and what is not ..... the world starts to look like a very weird place.
As George Carlin put it ....
"I have as much authority as the Pope ... I just don't have as many people who believe it"
And this is why learning history matters. It gives context for these friggin bizarre norms that accumulate. It allows us to realize when the norms are useful, we're useful and are no longer needed, or we're always just humans being weird.
Legit. People with no grasp of history get mad about trans people like it's a new thing when 16th century Europeans would castrate young boys for musical performances
I’m surprised they still had people auditioning, that’s dedication.
Money's a very nice incentive.
Uh you're not going to believe this, but the parents volunteered the boys.
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WE WANT CHILI WILLIE!!!
That quote is top notch.
Every time I see George Carlin mentioned on the web it always is a positive surprise.
Until critical mass admits that it is in fact a circus and we are all the clowns, nothing will change.