(Ed Note: There is a new bogus Carlin email circulating, which you can see here - it's utterly NOT Carlin's work. New Note [06/01]: Another bogus Carlin piece about life going backwards (also available here and 48,000 other places online). This one has also been attributed to Robert Benson and Andy Rooney. [06/01]: More lists of jokes [ie: "When cheese gets its picture taken, what does it say?"] being forwarded around the Internet that are not Carlin. It will never end. [07/01] Here are 3 joke lists that were not written by George Carlin: this includes the "Bad American" email that has been making the rounds. We may repeat ourselves here a little in the name of truth...) DON'T
BLAME ME Some
are essay-length, some are just short lists of one and two-line jokes, but if
they're flyin' around the Internet, they're probably not mine. Occasionally, a
couple of jokes on a long list might have come from me, but not often. And
because most of this stuff is really lame, it's embarrassing to see my name on
it. And
that's the problem. I want people to know that "PARADOX
OF OUR TIME" I
figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for
a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America
continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to
give a fuck. Like me. I really don't care. I stopped worrying about all this
temporal bullshit a long time ago. It's meaningless. (See the preface of "Braindroppings.")
Another
problem I have with "Paradox" is that the ideas are all expressed in a
sort of pseudo-spiritual, New-Age-y,
"Gee-whiz-can't-we-do-better-than-this" tone of voice. It's not only
bad prose and poetry, it's weak philosophy. I hope I never sound like that. HOW
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