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“…we always kill the guys who try and help us. Isn’t that strange, that we let the little demons run amok, always? John Lennon: murdered. John Kennedy: murdered. Martin Luther King: murdered. Gandhi: murdered. Jesus: murdered. Reagan…wounded. You know. Bad fucking choice.”
“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.”
The incomparable renegade comedian Bill Hicks (1961-1994) dealt in the best and worst truths of human nature. He styled his performances “Chomsky with dick jokes.”
If you like yourself, you’ll watch Hicks’ stand-up bits on the JFK Assassination, Drugs and Evolution, Non-Smokers, Advertising and Marketing and every other bit of film we were lucky enough to capture him on.
