Bill Hicks
Martedì, Novembre 4th, 2008
The world is like a ride at an amusement park. It 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…” But we always kill those good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok. Jesus - murdered; Martin Luther King - murdered; Malcolm X - murdered; Gandhi - murdered; John Lennon - murdered; Reagan… wounded. 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 defenses 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.
Detto da Bill Hicks, uno dei figli più caustici della satira statunitense, il maestro del nostro pluricensurato Luttazzi (e al confronto il comico bolognese è un agnellino), il messaggio suona ancora più valido. E commovente, se si pensa che pochi mesi dopo, nel 1994, Hicks moriva di cancro al fegato nella sua casa di Little Rock, in Arkansas.
Talmente caustico, che a me, italiano di fede cattolica, fa verametne sbudellare dal ridere.
Ad esempio chi ha mai visto fare (nel 2008, non parliamo neanche dell’epoca di Hicks!) da un comico italiano un pezzo così cattivo e contemporaneamente di così vera denuncia sociale? In un paese dove esiste “Striscia la notizia”?? Illusione. Fortunatamente esiste Youtube:
Bill Hicks on Marketing
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