We need Bill Hicks right now.
Submitted by Cassiodorus on Sun, 09/18/2016 - 4:45pm

Bill Hicks (December 16, 1961, five days before I was born -- February 26, 1994)

Bill Hicks (December 16, 1961, five days before I was born -- February 26, 1994)
The rest of Steve Earle's pantheon is fine, but right now we need Bill Hicks. He would make this situation funny. He would recognize our voting dilemma:
He would also recognize our politicians for what they are:
Oh, and Steve Earle, w/ the song with the pantheon in it:

Comments
Or Carlin
What else can you say?
As for me,
I couldn't agree more------------------------------------------------------------------------>
"Just call me Hillbilly Dem(exit)."
-H/T to Wavey Davey
Do we ever. Along with Carlin, patron saints of OWS.
Falseness of polls, austerity for war and Billy Clinton becoming "one of the Big Boys" when he bombed Iraq.
There's just so many gems.
But it seems Warner Bros has shut down access to lots of his stuff. Bastards. His entire catalog needs to be seen over and over by the entire populace. Speaking of which, I'm pissed reminded of the Hicks book published by a British print press was lent to a friend I haven't seen a couple of years.
For me, Carlin's "American Dream" could be the crystallization of his visceral disgust with consumerist, war mad and vapid America. I'm sure almost everybody has seen it, but this in my opinion is the best piece of political comedy ever:
Two great interview clips into his sagacious philosophies.
First he tells of the pivotal time in which he left the blinding "mainstream dream" because he was an outlaw and a rebel. Gets down with 60's counterculture because that's who he really is.
Then he reaches the same conclusions Twain and Vonnegut did about human kind.
If anyone can locate links to Hicks please post them.
Great comedians are a life force for social movements.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
Hicks on TX Waynesworld:
Party on, Bill.
The current working assumption appears to be that our Shroedinger's Cat system is still alive. But what if we all suspect it's not, and the real problem is we just can't bring ourselves to open the box?
Do you think Hicks or Carlin would be advocating voting for
Jill Stein or Gary Johnson? Doesn't seem like it to me. Seems like they knew the political system was a farce no matter what party or candidate.
Carlin, no.
Carlin was against voting, remember?
His stated position starts at 1:46.
Hicks died before the Green Party became big enough to scare Democrats.
"The thing that's so striking is this tremendous failure of imagination in the West." -- Douglas MacGregor
It's hard to argue with George on whether to vote or not.
As usual he makes a great case for not. "Garbage in, garbage out."
Was so moved by his life's work that I transcribed some of the pieces that really resonated with me.
I'm thinking long and hard about not voting. At the moment I'm resolved to voting for Jill Stein for President for the 2nd time in a row.
"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph:
THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED
FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD
WAS MUSIC"
- Kurt Vonnegut
I think Carlin would have left his house
for None of the Above. I could be wrong and we will never know.
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