Americans are increasingly unlikely to believe that those who work hard will get ahead and that their children will be better off than they are, according to two recent polls.

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    11 months ago

    a great philosopher. future humans, or maybe some alien race, will study the words of carlin the way we do socrates, plato, and aristotle.

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      11 months ago

      I don’t think so. Most popular culture gets utterly annihilated by history. It’s a little unsettling how popular things can be and then absolutely forgotten.

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        11 months ago

        Carlin had been pushed aside his entire career. That was what was so provocative about him. Someone who had a pulse on the heart beat of America but was operating completely in the background. He was so disillusioned by the end, an otherwise compassionate man, had basically decided that humanity was going to get what was coming to them and there was no amount of up front confrontation that could stop it.

        I’d argue the random glimpses we see of Carlin online is the most notoriety Carlin has received in the last 20 years. Almost as like an, “I told you so” from beyond the grave.