Sunday Inspiration: A person of good intelligence
cannot exist in this society very long
without having some anger about the inequality
– and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing –
it is just a normal human reaction
to a nonsensical set of values
where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss
and there are people sleeping in the street.”
― George Carlin
As many of you know, I spend the summers at Chautauqua Institution in Western New York. Each week we have a different theme, and comedy week begins today. We’ll have some outstanding talent speaking (and performing) for us, and I’ve been looking forward to this all year. Also just a short drive away in Jamestown, NY, we have the Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz Museum (a hoot) and The National Comedy Museum, which is one of my favorite places to spend a day each year. George Carlin is well documented and represented there.
Of course comedians feel the world deeply, even the ones who make you wince and cover your ears. How can you make fun of something you don’t feel in your very gut? From the above quote, Carlin makes his musings clear. In this difficult world we’re living in, can we at least agree on this much? That gross inequality, in a world that has so much to offer everyone, should make us feel deeply, too? And isn’t that where change begins?
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