George Carlin is a hero of mine. Not because he’s smarter than everyone else, not because he’s more successful than everyone else. Carlin, like Lenny Bruce before him, has the courage and insight to say the things we don’t want to hear, to tie together the threads of thought we’re often too distracted by daily life to put together ourselves. Carlin says what ought to be said, what needs to be said, whether we want to hear it or not. He presents the alternative view to the news broadcasts, the television commercials, the pronouncements from the government. His is the clear vision of the common man. And nowhere does he cut to the quick deeper than in the following video from one of his concerts. Be warned, Carlin’s routine contains many words you won’t want your children to hear, and quite a few obscenities as well. Carlin’s objective has always been to make people think for themselves. I hope this video causes you to think.