Stumble ThisGeorge Carlin gives one of his typical diatribes, this one about white people who play Blues.
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GENIUS and completely true.
I think you're confusing what Bukowski was saying there bubby. Go back and try to read it again.
"one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged.
but age is the total of
our doing.
they have aged
badly
because they have
lived
out of focus,
they have refused to
see.
not their fault?
whose fault?
mine?"
The only shame is when they TRY and bash things in society because they can't understand anymore, rather than because it doesn't make sense at all.
"age is no crime
but the shame
of a deliberately
wasted
life
among so many
deliberately
wasted
lives
is."
Don't waste your life bashing things. Yes, Carlin bashes things...doesn't mean we have to pick up the stick and bash back. You don't like him, fine. Does it really matter in the end? Of course not. You think that his fans are clueless and out of touch and we think you're yet another person who thinks they are all above it all. Again, what does it matter?
Oh, and fricken LIGHTEN UP.
I did leave that part out of my quote, and I am glad you bring that up. I'm not bashing on Carlin for being old. Bukowski was an old coot, just as I'll be an old coot (already am to the really young folks).
The poem starts off with:
"we are always asked
to understand the other person's
viewpoint
no matter how
out-dated
foolish or
obnoxious.
one is asked
to view
their total error
their life-waste
with
kindliness,
especially if they are
aged."
He goes on to explain that, although, we are asked these things, it's not my fault they have aged so poor and lost their connect to the world, it's theirs ("age is the total of our doing"). Carlin definitely hasn't wasted his life. Personally I don't think this poem has anything to do with what I said about Carlin not connecting with the world these days. If it does, then the poem is saying "hey, it's not my fault".
From a young age, probably too young when I think about it, I have been watching Carlin blow people's minds with his famous rants that would touch on relevant things to the times. He shaped my appreciation for social satire and that sense of skepticism but it just seems like with his brand of comedy, if he's not in touch with things (other parts of this routine show this too) then his comedy isn't effective anymore.
Maybe I'm just saddened to see a legend beyond his prime.