Think it was George Carlin, but the old "Think of the most average person you know, and remember that half of everyone is dumber than them" shtick is just getting more depressing the older I get.
That, and the ignorance of history. Sheesh... The Gulag Archipelago shouldn't be the footnote in history it is.
The ignorance of history is my biggest life's circle jerk. I often say, "Geologically speaking, if it happens once, it'll happen again." but I am 100% flanked irl by NPCs and nobody listens. My dad only watched five things on tv when I was growing up - golf, bowling, Star Trek, the Watergate hearings, and World at War. It felt like he mostly watched World at War. I think I would go watch all of those again as an adult, and I wonder if that was the real history or elaborate propaganda written by the victors.
We had similar fathers, mine is also an avid student of the civil war battles, and the battle of Midway in particular.
When I think of George Carlin, and it's often, is when someone says "Two minutes!"
This is the light-hearted one I keep coming back to.
Oh is Saint Anthony the patron saint of lost things? I'll have to remember that. In 1988, NYC, I swear I had a black hole in my apartment that alternately sucked in and spit out my belongings. I lived alone, and yet a huge quantity of cash went MIA, I was a waiter. I. Looked. Everywhere. For days. Leveled the place. One day I walk by my drafting table, and there it is - sitting in a clearing in a pool of light. I'm like What in the actual FUCK. This sort of thing happened routinely.
I love George Carlin, he was right up my alley. In the early 80's I was given a comedy album by a nuclear physicist comic, Chris Rush. I lost it in life and another comic named Chris Rush replaced him, but if you can find his work, he is hilarious and so so smart.
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