LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – [1] Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture hero famed for his routines about drugs, dirty words and the demise of humanity, died of heart failure at a Los Angeles-area hospital on Sunday. He was 71.
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His comedic sensibility revolved around a central theme: humanity is a cursed, doomed species.His comedic sensibility revolved around a central theme: humanity is a cursed, doomed species.
‘I don’t have any beliefs or allegiances. I don’t believe in this country, I don’t believe in religion, or a god, and I don’t believe in all these man-made institutional ideas,’ he told Reuters in a 2001 interview.
I can’t help but wonder, what his position on all that is, now.