George Carlin - The Youthful Brain (Paley Center, 2008)

[Exerus]

The guy in the chair interviewing carlin was bored as hell. You should look interested douche not opinionated.

[xMoreTx]

Well, it is logical that the human mind is in its prime at the age of 25-30. Nature did not intend for us to live more than 35-40 years, we do it now due to unnaturally good living conditions. We aren't supposed to have all this time on our hands to waste and not know what to do with. Everyone keeps telling me that life is too short, but it's not; it's too long. Had we only 30 years of life, we would be much more concerned with what to do with them than we are now with 80-90.

[NinetiesYouth]

all the greatest creative endeavors are produced in a person's 20s

[krazyako]

My Views About The Huxlean Theory of A Brave New World Order: Community [A misconception that a society should only fundamentally work by 'false happiness' or Placebo even if it means giving up freedoms and 'real' progress], Identity [Deliberately Blind belief and portrayal of objects and intangible to act as a measurement and security of identity] , Stability [Belief and portrayal everything is fine]. Welcome To A Brave New World Order of 1984

[krazyako]

I understand what you mean guys... Even George Orwell, Aldous Huxley and George Carlin knew that the things that will and does torment people are or will be hard to avoid. I know, it will be a hard struggle for me to release myself from the Huxlean chains that make me subservient to the 'masters of society'... but awareness is something they can still not stop... but they're getting there, we're running out of time.

[RealTime88]

I loved reading history and non-fiction as well. George Carlin rocks!! He was brilliant and funny. One of my heroes and I miss him so much!! I'm glad I read all four of his books.

[Fiorwestcoast]

I am a gamer...but the only reason why is b/c I like to dream of a place that is imaginary b/c this world and the way it is run is a joke. It is a mess. People still believe that voting maters. The more I try to inform people on facts and non fiction the more they don't want to know. I get my ''fix'' from escaping reality. But I educate myself the rest of the time on reality and looking at that can make you go insane.

[sexyxrs]

this planet seem to be getting dumbier by the minute prolly why we accept death hehe :p

[smallpotatoes989]

today they are still living with their parents!

[TrunksTrevelyan]

Man. George's talking about "I've been reading this and that book" and you can just see the interviewer thinking "Who the hell reads books?!" <_<

[jgjghgh]

"You know something? I think he's up there... Smiling down at us."

-George Carlin. If in any way he is living a life beyond death, which is completely fucking retarded... I hope he's happy.

[MrEthanhC]

@jgjghgh Actually, he used that quote in one of his shows, it isn't his. HIS quote is: "I think he's down there screaming up at us".

[jgjghgh]

@MrEthanhC Well yeah. You got the refference right.

[myaccount611]

Raging til the day he died.

[gotobedandtickler]

Watch on you tube " The power of visualisations " this will train your mind in the quantum physics theories and practices. Our friend in this video is simply a guide. we are the creators of ideas and thoughts. Greed and need are the cancers. Train your thoughts and mind in to the unbelievable and remove the cancer of money. Seek and you will find. Follow and you will be led. A great teacher sadly missed but, still laughing.

[gotobedandtickler]

@gotobedandtickler Look up " Pineal gland " Google it!

[Inmat3]

rest in peace :( you will not be forgoten, you wil be forever in our happy thoughts :)

[theshag20]

he was so smart didnt even finish 9th grade and is reading books on physics amazing

[coffeefish]

Yeah, get the F out of your parents house, and try to get some work done, you Liberal F-ing pussies.

[123456789imthatguy]

@coffeefish so they can give up on their beliefs work a 9-5 giving up a third of their life and sacrificing their health and well-being to a corporation whose main objective is to make money off of the very type of ppl they employ? i dont live at home nor do i have any specific party i favor but please stfu with comments like this why dont you quit your shitty job realize what is really going on in the world and make something positive for a change you ignorant republic war monger

[coffeefish]

@123456789imthatguy My job is not shitty. I do realize what is going on in the world, that's why I think Liberal Democrats are little Queers.

[warcamp70]

@coffeefish

You're a fucking idiot to come to a Carlin video to spew democrat (and republican) bullshit. Like he and other people that can think for themselves know is that they are two sides of the same coin. And their are many so-call repubs out of work too you asshole. And speaking of "queers", can you count the number of republican polititions that has resigned after they were exposed as being "queer".

[RealTime88]

I love non-fiction too. 

[CMY187]

Somehow, I think Carlin would've had a postive view of Terry Pratchett's Discworld, along with some of Garth Ennis's works..

Too bad we never got to hear what Carlin thought of South Park.

[MikeRoePhonicsMusic]

Hearing George Carlin talk about quantum physics is great!

[SouthernGuy73]

Carlin didn't offer any solutions for anything, he just yammered like an old woman bitching about things, sort of like Bill Maher. Pretty intellectually lazy when you get down to it.

[mopar340dave]

@SouthernGuy73 WTF do you offer? LMAO...

[chewkachu]

@SouthernGuy73 he gave insight of his thoughts. you can't provide solutions for everyone. what someone deem as a solution may not be for someone else. everyone should find their own solution based on what they think is best. cheers

[PronkAxis]

@SouthernGuy73 I was waiting for the part where you would do something different.

[BndGrlDi]

Carlin would turn over in his grave if he saw that ad....Like the video. Hate the ad.

[drixomanbeta]

Oh ya old f|_|ck, why didn't you tell death to f|_|uck off...you would have enjoyed every minute of what is currently happening, and what will then happen, in the US right now.

[idiosyncrazy1980]

Is this video available somewhere in its entirety ?

[AnonMadara]

We shouldn't wish for him to be still alive. he would probably hate it anyway.^^

Plus we should maybe start thinking ourselves, and not let people like him do it for us.

Carlin was a great person. Wise, intelectual and really fuckin reflected.

I'd rather try to learn from him and think for myself. Always.

[CounterNerd]

@AnonMadara

I think people just miss the image of him. Someone who represents the people to question and stand up for themselves.

[AnonMadara]

@CounterNerd sure... all i meant to say was that if everybody became a little more like him, we wouldnt need to miss him ^^

[OneHandHigh]

Fuckin George Carlin vids with ADVERTISEMENTS.

HOLY JUMPIN FUCKIN SHIT BALLS!!

[Ravenofthewood]

He was a brilliantine man we must never forget his work. We must continue to carry it on.

[pereocean]

i wish george was immortal

[leechmasterb]

@pereocean

What makes you think he is not? After all he is talking to you from his grave, right? ;)

[jimakosgian26]

fuck you on this one charlin saying that today young people steel live with their parents! i guess he couldnt undrestand how dificult it is now days to make it on your own in the old days it ws much more easy to do it! now the system wants as all slaves!! i loved charlin while he was alive but he is wrong on this one

[5jerry1]

@jimakosgian26

"charlin?"

[JustREALrap]

I completely agree. I find fiction uninteresting. I've just read "Twelve Steps To Political Revelation" by Walter Mosley. If you're watching this video and like George Carlin's politics, you should pick up a copy.

[andmaketherain]

What is interesting now, is that even though we have higher populations, where are all the genius's?

[jimakosgian26]

@andmaketherain it is very simple!! the people about 50 years ago werent geniuses !! the reason is they had the chance to discover something that was easy to discover and be named as time passes it gets more and more difficult to discover new things as all of them had been discovered before you were even born!! i believe given the same chance some people could make the same discoveries if they lived a 100 years before today!! so geniuses are around but there is not much new to discover easily

[holesinmyknees]

@jimakosgian26 dude, there's so much left to be invented in the universe... you just don't have the imagination to see it all. the very same reason you could not have invented the lightbulb or the telephone, it's very easy to see how to do it once you've already been shown.

[jimakosgian26]

@holesinmyknees maybe there is much left but it is not as easy as it was for them to invent it!! for example all newton had to do to discover gravity was to sit under a tree!!! how fucking awesome is that??? now days if you want to discover something new you need to travel to extreme palces incuding space!! so IT IS MUCH MORE DIFFICULT TO DISCOVER SOMETHING NOW DAYS AND ALSO THERE ARE NOT SO MANY THING TO DISCOVER AS THERE USED TO BE!!

[holesinmyknees]

@jimakosgian26 haha he had to do a little more than sit under a tree, he had to see the world in a way it had never been seen before, there's nothing easy about that. It took all the same ingenuity, hard work and curiosity about the world as it takes to make advances in quantum mechanics today. We're never going to know everything about our world, but more is learned every day, and what's more we now have a huge base of knowledge, methods and tools to help in the search.

[Hermoor]

pseudo intellectual comedian, there are 18 year olds as "smart" as him.

[miketicea]

@Hermoor You are kinda slow-minded, aren't you?...

[Archaeosix]

@Hermoor Just curious, but what makes you think that?

I'm sure there are 18 year olds who are as "smart" as him, but I'm also pretty sure that THOSE 18 year olds are GENIUSES. :)

[Hermoor]

@Archaeosix There is nothing he sais that I couldn't have said myself...he is no genious.

[Archaeosix]

@Hermoor Holy super quick response Batman!

"There is nothing he sais that I couldn't have said myself"

Well maybe you're a genius then? ;-)

But seriously, how does that make him a pseudo intellectual? Maybe he wasn't a "genius", but he certainly was no pseudo intellectual. Those kinds of people have big egos and are mostly ( if not always ) full of shit.

[Hermoor]

@Archaeosix He is a comedian who has at early age started watching some documentaries and reading some books....the new generation of youngsters have been exposed to so much more information...and are very much like him. Although maybe not as confident or as "funny".

[TechReid]

@Hermoor We are the biggest set of failures in the history of people. For that precise reason you mention (the extreme availability of information) young people would rather "pwn" noobs on Xbox live. Listen to some rapper, and browse 4chan every 5 minutes whilst having epic internet battles such as this. Instead of making real progress in humanity, our generation hasn't achieved piss. Every privilege we have today was because people b4 us either died or figured it out for us, we are bums lmao.

[jimakosgian26]

@TechReid speka for your self!! given the same chance people had a long time before me i would have done the same thing!! and i would have invented something!!!

[JizzMasterPino]

@TechReid

I agree with you but, being interested in science etc. and playing games can go together, or don't you agree?

The people I mostly complain to are the ones loving to watch cooking shows or dancing with the stars kind of shit. Complete useless bullshit which they can talk about after they watched it. It pisses me off how superficial everyone has become. They don't question anything. I agree a lot of gamers are completely away from the world, but who can blame em, isn't it society?

[JizzMasterPino]

@TechReid

I mean what's there to live for in the outside world. People are unfriendly, everything is boring, but when you play games. Let's say when I play games I always find people who want to have interesting conversations and are friendly etc. Unlike in real life where most of my friends couldn't care less about science, morality etc. They just think it's weird I would talk about that. I only have a handful of friend who are interested in that kind of stuff. I don't think games are bad.

[G6Colours]

@Hejzwej You just proved his point, god young people SUCK.

[waterableman]

@Hejzwej Young people are unskilled, out of touch, and inadequate in almost every trade nowadays compared to previous generations, this is a observable fact. That is what he was talking about. I wouldn't be surprised if you didn't know how to do your laundry since this gen is so blindly disenfranchised and full of shit, young people don't want to see the failure in themselves. I recommend watching Zeitgeist movie series, it's a real eye opener.

[DeLuck69]

@waterableman young people have had their failures handed to them by their previous generation. how can you blame the current generation for our ancestors' crimes?

[jackp22]

George Carlin talking about quantum mechanics. Too much awesome.

[TwistedMentality089]

@jackp22 yea now you can truly see that he is in fact one of the brightes people of the century and he never went to university or finished high school

[PrescottProductions4]

I will never fucking buy anything that utube advertises

[d4n13lr0x]

@PrescottProductions4 Even little baby kittens that will die if you don't? :(

[cyclotane]

:( that that mean george doesnt like Brave new world or Stranger in a stranger land?? both are beautiful science fiction books :(((

[MaCs1313]

I like fiction and reality, I'm very curios about every thing as long as it is pleasurable I wish to know more. Creativity and innovation is for the the youth and sadly I would be old enough not to do that any more and I'm trying to hold on to it how much I can. 

[dilwich123]

Its hard to believe were past it at 40 :(

[centurion180ad]

True and not funny, that last bit.

[Tartersauce101]

he's a guy i wish i could have had endless hours to talk with...or argue with. like about his anti-fiction stance :P

[w1lp34]

he probably died in many places. but i know he will reencarnate in much more places. he is not entertaiment. he is the god of thoughtfullness.

[SuffocateJav90]

@w1lp34 "You think you can stop revolution by killing the revolutionaries? Thats being naive, you cant kill the ideas" totally agree man, george carlin wasn't about the man, it was about the ideas.. I guess I would have thought the same way..

[CharlieShaughnessy]

On many levels, I feel the same way about reading and information. Miss you so much George. Rest in peace.

[pedrosanc07]

you are terribly missed George Carlin

[surfer53]

It's interesting to watch people like George Carlin and Glenn Beck (oh geez, here come the insults) because it's clear that when they started their research they had one opinion (George was a staunch hard-left liberal, Glenn a hard-right conservative) but after further exploration they both came closer together in their opinions. I'm a left-leaning libertarian who was a moderate conservative in my teens, but you evolve and you grow up and get more information.

[PACKyourSHITfolks420]

@surfer53 Fuck politics.

[ilovetogofast88]

As usual, Carlin hit the nail on the board, I strictly read nonfiction too because I like to expand my mind and discover new things, not that Harry Potter fantasy bullshit

[defern64]

@ilovetogofast88 But sometimes we need that "Harry Potter bullshit." Just as you can see throughout nature, all extremes have an opposite and require this opposite to maintain balance. Sometimes we need fantasy to take us away from the worries of reality every now and then, and likewise we need reality to keep us informed and grounded. Too much of one thing is never good or healthy. I prefer nonfiction always, but little Harry Potter can't do much harm :)

[ilovetogofast88]

@defern64

That may be true in some circumstances if you LIKE Harry Potter. I myself did try to read a few pages of one Potter book, but never got into it

[alucard1083]

i wish i had all themoney in the world...i give it shitload of it to everyone.....

[PyroclasticMind]

i wish i was 2 dog's so i could play together

[jotskiaren]

I wish I was a Whale.

[sergevtmx]

@jotskiaren keep eating like that and you will be one soon, hahahaha. just kidding

[RikkuPaine01]

@trakomako Selling your bible isn't a symbol of your religion, it's a gesture you make to gain profit and to spread corruption. So saying to someone that not buying your bible and not believing your words will result in that person's "burning in hell" is not very Christian of you, now is it?

[RoaraWolf]

@RikkuPaine01

(I don't think he's Christian)

[mihaimoldo]

stop arguing you morons,you don't gain ANYTHING from winning an argument over the internet...Nothing!....Just enjoy the words of wisdom from probably the greatest mind of the 21'st century...

seesh....Carlin himself would probably punch you right in the face....

I for one thank the Paley Center for posting this!

Miss you, you old brilliant bastard.

[dpengar]

@mihaimoldo

what you're saying is so funny because you're doing the same EXACT thing, just arguing over the internet

[Paladinmarche]

@trakomako Its either a very idiotic sarcasm or its a complete satire of a fundamentalist Christian that is poorly done... either way I don't really give a crab's shit....

[Paladinmarche]

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[Paladinmarche]

@trakomako And you are a hypocrite! " buy my bible" from another video. If you are a good christian its free, but then again your mind is the size of a sperm.....so do me a favor...SHUT THAT GARBAGE SHIT YOU ARE SPEWING. YOU FUCKING ASS-BAG! 

[gvsfgdf]

@trakomako lol nice yea the bible's fucked up.

[TheWillLockwood]

@trakomako

um

the first time i read this, i thought you were joking.

then i read your other comments.

and now i realize

that you just have no idea who george carlin is

because he was probably the biggest atheist the world has ever seen.

[Bremerxxxx]

How come everybody I admire is dead? George Carlin, Bill Hicks, Kurt Vonnegut, Carl Sagan, Hunter S. Thompson, Bertrand Russell, Robert Anton Wilson...

[JessAtlas]

@Bremerxxxx People have been saying that for a long time... It's because we don't truly respect people who are alive.

[snozwanger234]

he was here just a min ago!!

[normalguycap]

The host looks bored like, "He's not being funny."

[Rockmangoes]

The goverment killed him,,,prophets like these dont die,,,blame your local goverment

[Despierto]

This is a side of GC that people ought to see. This guy is a fucking genius. Much more than a comedian he was a thinker. That his conclusions "happen to be" comedy is not his doing but our own SHIT.

[milanmihai]

If you people are sorry he is dead you are crazy. George Carlin did not die he will never die. It is a mathematical impossibility. The guy was more than a man, he was a messenger of wisdom, love, truth and hope. If there is a God, he would now have the honor to shake his hand.

[rage1umr]

@milanmihai

...but if you are at all familiar with Mr. Carlin, you already know that there is no God.  Pray to Joe Pesci instead; you'll have roughly the same success rate.

[mihaimoldo]

@milanmihai E superb mesajul :). Respect

[TheWillLockwood]

george carlin alone knew the truth.

and now its gone.

[dpman72]

George and Albert Einstein. Birds of a feather.

[TuRdSandwitch18]

: ( i wish he was still alive

[GibsonGuitarist666]

@TuRdSandwitch18 We all do. We're doomed.

[diezel1002]

@TuRdSandwitch18 He is alive. In everyone of us his fans and followers. His wisdom should be past on.

[ChildrenHaveNoTalent]

@TuRdSandwitch18 Oh God, your name fucking killed me. I woke up my mother. Jesus Christ. I love you.

[freethinkerdangerous]

I like the same sort of books as he does :)

Except I love fiction and fantasy.

[LiFe0In1ThE0MaTrix01]

george was a fan of coast to coast am, i think he was on the show in 1999

[truvelocity]

Yes, fact based information.  Agree.

[MrDeadeyes]

I forget he gone a lot of the time. :(

[TheHigherVoltage]

Miss ya George.