Why do people get massive hard-ons for George Carlin

More Than Mortal · September 14, 2014, 11:58:57 AM

Yeah, I'll grant the guy was really, really fucking funny.

But he was no philosopher. Just a cynical, bitter cunt.

cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 14, 2014, 12:00:41 PM

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Magos Domina · September 14, 2014, 12:00:52 PM

I don't even find him funny.

Dustin · September 14, 2014, 12:01:39 PM

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God · September 14, 2014, 12:02:44 PM

Because:

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 14, 2014, 11:58:57 AM

the guy was really, really fucking funny.

More Than Mortal · September 14, 2014, 12:07:04 PM

Quote from: Le Dustin on September 14, 2014, 12:01:39 PM

I think he's funny and somehow I've never managed to disagree with him (maybe I haven't watched him enough?)

Probably not.

He did used to hope that every natural disaster would get worse and worse, and that aliens helped the Ancient Egyptians build the pyramids.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · September 14, 2014, 12:09:48 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 14, 2014, 12:11:26 PM

Quote from: TrussingDoor on September 14, 2014, 12:09:48 PM

The thing is, the cynical, bitter cunts are usually right.

That's way too broad a range.

Yeah, it's understandable how people are cynical and bitter, but that's a result. It's a descriptive, not pre-scriptive term. People shouldn't strive to be bitter or cynical.

And there's a massive gulf between being a social critic, as most of us are in some capacity, and an actual political, philosophical authority on the matter.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · September 14, 2014, 12:14:19 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 14, 2014, 12:18:38 PM

Quote from: TrussingDoor on September 14, 2014, 12:14:19 PM

Well, yeah. I don't think anyone here is arguing that we should treat Carlin like a philosopher.

I'm just talking about people in general. A lot of Carlin fans I come across see his overwhelming fatalism and confuse it for philosophical or intellectual profundity.

ΚΑΤΑΝΑΛΩΤΗΣ · September 14, 2014, 12:21:59 PM

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cxfhvxgkcf-56:7 · September 14, 2014, 12:22:31 PM

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The Justicar · September 14, 2014, 12:42:18 PM

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Magos Domina · September 17, 2014, 06:06:02 AM

Quote from: Lady Noelle on September 14, 2014, 01:21:43 PM

He is hilarious, and is right about certain things.

No -_-

TB · September 17, 2014, 09:57:24 AM

He's funny.

DAS B00T x2 · September 17, 2014, 10:19:20 AM

I like to imagine that if Crescens was a comedian than he'd be George Carlin.

September 17, 2014, 10:25:43 AM

Eewww.

Dustin · September 17, 2014, 02:46:50 PM

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More Than Mortal · September 17, 2014, 02:49:01 PM

Quote from: Le Dustin on September 17, 2014, 02:46:50 PM

No, you misunderstand.

He wanted them to get worse.

Verbatim · September 17, 2014, 02:53:42 PM

Because of statements like this:

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If a diabetic, on his way to buy insulin, is killed by a runaway truck, he is the victim of an accident. If the truck was delivering sugar, he is the victim of an oddly poetic coincidence. But if the truck was delivering insulin, ah! Then he is the victim of an irony.

It may not seem so profound, but we live in a society where "irony" is up there with some of the most abused words in the English language. Up there with "edgy", "epic", "literally", and "legitimately".

Dustin · September 17, 2014, 02:56:20 PM

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Yu · September 17, 2014, 02:59:30 PM

MyNameIsCharlie · September 17, 2014, 02:59:30 PM

He was a philosopher of sorts.

He pointed to our more ridiculous traits and said "what the fuck?" We laughed because we knew them to be true. Not many can do that. To be so brutally honest that we have to acknowledge our faults, laugh at them and go on trying to be better people.

More Than Mortal · September 17, 2014, 03:04:10 PM

Quote from: Le Dustin on September 17, 2014, 02:56:20 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 17, 2014, 02:49:01 PM
Quote from: Le Dustin on September 17, 2014, 02:46:50 PM
No, you misunderstand.

He wanted them to get worse.
You do too. Just saying.

Sorry?

More Than Mortal · September 17, 2014, 03:05:02 PM

Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on September 17, 2014, 02:59:30 PM

He was a philosopher of sorts.

You could say that about anybody except the brain-dead.

God · September 17, 2014, 03:11:15 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 17, 2014, 02:49:01 PM

Quote from: Le Dustin on September 17, 2014, 02:46:50 PM
No, you misunderstand.

He wanted them to get worse.

He also wanted to build a giant fence around the Midwest and airdrop criminals into it.

Dustin · September 17, 2014, 03:12:25 PM

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MyNameIsCharlie · September 17, 2014, 03:13:35 PM

Quote from: Meta Cognition on September 17, 2014, 03:05:02 PM

Quote from: MyNameIsCharlie on September 17, 2014, 02:59:30 PM
He was a philosopher of sorts.
You could say that about anybody except the brain-dead.

While true, anyone could be, his brand of brutal honesty wasn't that prevalent before him.

More Than Mortal · September 17, 2014, 03:14:02 PM

Quote from: Le Dustin on September 17, 2014, 03:12:25 PM

]You told me once that you wouldn't the world to be in chaos. Do you not remember?

I wouldn't mind if the world were to be in chaos?

Well, I wouldn't. I just don't actively hope for it. I do enjoy the order civil society affords me.