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Learning Skepticism From George Carlin

Jay Dixit, over at the Psychology Today blogs, has an extraordinary interview with George Carlin, weeks before his death.

I want you to read the entire interview; Carlin had an ear for detecting fraud, bullshit, and lies.

Carlin made the following observation:

"Now at this age, I have a network of knowledge and data and observations and feelings and values and evaluations I have in me that do things automatically.

And then when I sit down to consciously write, that's when I bring the craftsmanship.

That's when I pull everything together and say, how I can best express that?

And then as you write, you find more, 'cause the mind is looking for further connections.

And these things just flow into your head and you write them.

And the writing is the really wonderful part. A lot of this is discovery. A lot of things are lying around waiting to be discovered and that's our job is to just notice them and bring them to life."

Our job just to notice them and bring them to life.

Do read the entire interview, store it and review it every ten years.

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Full post as published by Misleading Advertising Law on June 24, 2008 (boomark / email).