Hi, I just poisoned you. Would you like to buy a possible cure? It's very expensive and probably won't work, but trust me, its the only way!

Good thing we (the US) lost the war, or this lady would probably have her own team of lobbyists running their country.

https://incendar.com/baby_boomer_deathclock.php

This was in 1992. I like how George's example, that we only help one another after a flood, no longer even applies in the US, as you have people arguing some people from some places shouldn't be helped even after a natural disaster.

George's comedy specials helped raise me from a young age when no one else was doing any raising. I consider him to be one of the greatest minds, social commentators, and philosophers of the 20th century, and I've yet to recognize a contemporary near his level. I'll always be grateful to have had the honor to see him twice before he died.

I see a lot of people enjoy his brilliant bits, but with the way the world is and where its going, imho in the name of enthusiastic greed, I personally find a lot of peace, and a lot less depression when I choose to aspire to George's genuine divorce and detachment from "caring about the outcome."

Enjoy the freakshow, folks!

Bonus: I've seen so many comments in his bit videos wishing for George's perspective on smartphones, well this was near his end (2008), smartphones were just arriving, and his opening words briefly address in passing what he thought about the latest tech obsession.

If you're unwilling to earnestly, critically examine/scrutinize your beliefs, and discard them in failing that scrutiny or in light of new information, you are doomed to stagnate as a individual.

An important sentiment in these times of belligerent, entrenched ideologies imho.

Just so we're clear, the villains won and had the heroes taken out back and shot a loooooong time ago. ❄️Happy Holidays❄️

(and in all seriousness, go watch It's a Wonderful Life if you haven't. It's a great time capsule of the competing values of its time that, imho, provides a lot of context for how we got... here. And it's a really good movie.

It couldn't be made today by a major studio, and if it got remade for name recognition, the core message would be completely gutted.)