Ryan Minor: George Carlin On Individuality

Source:Ryan Minor- comedian George Carlin.

Source:The Daily Times

"I little excerpt from a George Carlin audio book that I wanted to share.

Enjoi!" 

From Ryan Minor 

I'm not religious and I don't want to sound religious or speak in the name of God, even to make a great point, because that would be fake. But the universe created individuals not to be clones of each other or to be just like one superior individual, but for people to be individuals, to be themselves. 

In a world that's dominated by pop culture and celebrity culture, people who talk, think, who dress, who eat as themself, rather than what the so-called hot celebrity is currently doing, that person who acts for themself, is going to stand out and look unique and generally get looked down upon as well. Because they're not eating or drinking the exact same things as the so-called in-crowd are eating or drinking. Or they use their own words, or they're the one person in the crowd who doesn't have the latest smartphone, not aware of who was the latest person to get kicked off the latest so-called reality show, they can get through an entire day without coffee or coffee house coffee, whatever the thing is. 

But, if the universe wanted clones, it wouldn't have created billions of different people, with their own individual brains and personalities. Just because we have billions of people who apparently can't think, talk, and act for themselves, doesn't mean we don't have individuals. It just means we have billions of people who choose not to be themself for fear of standing out in the crowd and being just a little different from the so-called in-crowd. I think that's essentially what George Carlin is saying here and I completely agree with him.