Bill Hicks - It's just a ride Kinetic typography

The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it, you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly coloured and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question, is this real, or is this just a ride? And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey -- don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because, this is just a ride..."

And we... kill those people.
"Shut him up."
"We have a lot invested in this ride. Shut him up. Look at my furrows of worry. Look at my big bank account and my family. This just has to be real."

Just a ride. But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. But it doesn't matter because: It's just a ride. And we can change it anytime we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings and money. A choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defences each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

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[mrwompin]

Tried to save our souls and we rejected him. RIP Bill.

[schism310]

So amazing!!! Bill Hicks so absolutely brilliant!!!

And how are there 10 dislikes? 10 suckers of satans cock, maybe? Could Leno, Quale, Tipper, Bush, or that nazi Limbaugh have been here?

Just have to hope that it was 10 people with a tenuous grasp on the english language. in that case I apologize for the whole sucking satans cock thing ;) wasnt talking about you.

"Love, Laughter, & Truth"

[John Doe]

i wish it was that easy hicks... that means getting every single individual on the planet on the same page. im sorry that does not happen every one is different .. there is no such thing as utopia and you will always have nuts and crazys in the world .. so we lay down our arms and use it for good.. what about the bad in the world who does notGIVEAFUK who is not on the same page as you, that has a completely different ideology. then our freedom n love n peace is gone because they will destroy us

[felicia92271]

I listen to this daily, it helps me understand the universe.

[denes boldizar]

What he sad ALL TRUE!!!

[guycallens]

these words make Bill Hicks a genius

everytime I am struggling in life, I remind myself of the Magic Bill Hicks words

[OlauspetriGoomba]

The people who inspire us to a change of mindset have to die. Especially people who actually won victories against the current system without adapting to it, like Gandhi or Martin Luther King, because their victories gave them enormous traction and power, and showed people that in fact change IS possible. […]

[OlauspetriGoomba]

[…] The people who invested a lot in this ride are firstly and especially those who have come out on top in this society, the very rich and powerful. But also everyone who's not at the bottom and thinks "you know what you’ve got, but not what you’re gonna get" (the beloved “middle class”), and therefore protects the status quo, even though that status quo kills millions of less fortunate and leaves billions living in squalor so that some may live in extreme wealth.

[Silvio brandao]

We kill those people: John lennon, malcom X, Martin Luther King Jr. ETc... People who tell us to live in peace etc...

We invested a lot in this ride: The average rich/ materialist people, who believes that life it's the real one, and this up side down world is how is suppose to be, a world where we're mean to each other, where we steal from each other, where we sheet to each other, and so on.

[Kazikox]

Well for example John Lennon, Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King. And those invested a lot in the ride are corporations, vast industries without paying any regard to people and that benefit from the constructed system of today.

[Misclickable]

Who does he mean by "We kill those people." and also who is he referring by saying "We invested a lot in that ride." from someone's mouth ?