Source: Foundation Interviews– George Carlin, being interviewed in 2007
Source: The New Democrat
Would like to hear more from George Carlin on why he believes it’s not important to give a shit ( as he put it ) because that can be interpreted in multiple ways which is exactly what I’m going to do here and lay out what he might be talking about here.
According to Wikipedia – a Nihilist is someone who
“Nihilism (/ˈnaɪ(h)ɪlɪzəm, ˈniː-/; from Latin nihil, meaning ‘nothing’) is the philosophical viewpoint that suggests the denial or lack of belief towards the reputedly meaningful aspects of life. Most commonly, nihilism is presented in the form of existential nihilism, which argues that life is without objective meaning, purpose, or intrinsic value.[1] Moral nihilists assert that there is no inherent morality, and that accepted moral values are abstractly contrived. Nihilism may also take epistemological, ontological, or metaphysical forms, meaning respectively that, in some aspect, knowledge is not possible, or reality does not actually exist.
The term is sometimes used in association with anomie to explain the general mood of despair at a perceived pointlessness of existence that one may develop upon realising there are no necessary norms, rules, or laws.[2]
Nihilism has also been described as conspicuous in or constitutive of certain historical periods: for example, Jean Baudrillard and others have called postmodernity a nihilistic epoch;[3] and some religious theologians and figures of religious authority have asserted that postmodernity[4] and many aspects of modernity[5] represent a rejection of theism, and that such rejection of theistic doctrine entails nihilism.”
Is this what George Carlin meant when he said that it’s important to bot give a shit? That he’s someone who believed, “that a person who believes that life is meaningless and rejects all religious and moral principles.
dogmatic atheists and nihilists could never defend the value of human life”
synonyms: skeptic, negativist, cynic, pessimist; More
historical
a supporter of an extreme Russian revolutionary party c. 1900 which found nothing to approve of in the established social order.”
If that’s the case then George Carlin and Donald Trump have plenty in common. They believe there’s no such thing as a truth or at least one truth that nothing is real and everything is subjective to what the person at the time says or believes it is. If this is the case as far as what Carlin believes when he said it’s important to not give a shit, than I can’t respect him for that. Because are such things as rights and wrongs.
I get skepticism and I’m a skeptic myself and alway take the word of reason or the word of faith and trust only what I know and understand including people. Trust people and things that have earned my trust based on their records and my interactions with them. Not looking into their eyes and claiming to read their souls and saying that I trust this person or that person because I’ve claimed to viewed their soul and see that they are a good person.
Foundation Interviews: George Carlin- ‘On Why It’s Important To Not Give a Shit’
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