Carlin has a lot of bangers, but this isn’t one of them and doesn’t sound like something he would say. It completely trivializes the struggle of the lower class.
You’re incorrect. He said it in interviews constantly, and in one of his books (which he narrated the audio book for so he said it there too).
“Don’t confuse me with those who cling to hope. I enjoy describing how things are, I have no interest in how they ‘ought to be.’ And I certainly have no interest in fixing them. I sincerely believe that if you think there’s a solution, you’re part of the problem. My motto: Fuck Hope!”
-George Carlin, excerpt from his book Brain Droppings
He was a man who was profoundly disappointed in his fellow man, which I understand, but he was wrong on this one.
How can you look at our history and our present, and not be profoundly disappointed/disillusioned with humanity?
Cause I can… Like literally, because i have the ability, the technology, and (somehow) the education, to look at anything at all that happened before the oldest person alive’s birthday…
Its not a fucking endless awesome orgy, but damnit I like not having to huddle with all you weirdos just for warmth in some damp cave.
Because we could have already turned Earth into a nuclear wasteland several times over. And we didn’t. So if you think this is the worst timeline, think again
Yeah, and that’s the problem with quoting part of what someone says.
Without the context of the entire statement, it looks different than with the entirety. It switches from a statement about his own cynicism and outlook are, with the out of context part being a explanation of detail behind “fuck hope” to just a blanket statement that anyone with hope is the problem.
It’s also important to realize that brain droppings is not a serious screed. The guy was a comedian first, and very often wrapped his beliefs in exaggerations to emphasize the absurd in life. He even explained exactly that during his routine about rape jokes. It’s all about the exaggeration, the twisting of things to turn an idea on its head.
Taking the entire quote as 100% serious is as much a mistake as only quoting part of it.
Reads like something a boomer would say. With a mindset like this you’re definitely part of the problem.
Cool, solve mankind’s many great self-created crises we could have mitigated upon recognition but didn’t, almost entirely out of some people attempting to solve what they see as the bigger problem: “line not going up fast enough.”
I’ll start a timer so you can impress us.
I’m not sure how you can look back at what you wrote and think that you’re not the one that’s part of the problem
So if you’re ignorant, you’re not causing the problem?
What does this even mean?
Also you you.
You you?
does heat death of the universe count as a solution?
Fortunately, mercifully, the very concepts of problems and solutions will have faded into oblivion long before then.
Humans cause ourselves a lot of misery in our never ending quest to label every conceivable human impulse as right and wrong. I get stuff like murder, but right down to what other people say and value.
Firstly, Carlin had a pretty dark landing, and was also conveniently dead by the time trump farted in the zeitgeist. So yeah he was wrong on this one.
Secondly, is that an AI picture? It doesn’t really look like him. It looks like a look-alike.
I adore Carlin, and have even granted him sainthood in my own fake religion.
That being said: He was incredibly privileged in almost every way. It’s easy to have this mindset when you’re watching the game from your own private box.
