Sep 23 2007
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“ Certain stand-up comedians have adopted misanthropy in their criticisms of society and popular culture. The late comedian Bill Hicks made cynical statements like “[humanity] is a virus with shoes” … Though Hicks’ misanthropy is joined always by his lifelong advocations on equality and peace, distrusting governments and systems that attempt in any way to sway the complete freedom that human beings deserve as individuals inhabiting a whole. An example of this is his words that end the London concert, “Revelations”: “You know all that money America spends on nuclear weapons and defence every year? Instead, if we spent that money feeding and clothing the poor of the world, not one human being left out, as it would pay for it many times over, we could, as one race, explore outer space together in peace - forever.
