George Carlin: Honest Cynicism.
"The American Dream," it's called that because you have to be asleep to believe it. - George Carlin
There was a fantastic universal sense that whatever we were doing was right, that we were winning. . . .
And that, I think, was the handle—that sense of inevitable victory over the forces of Old and Evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we didn’t need that. Our energy would simply prevail. There was no point in fighting — on our side or theirs. We had all the momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. . . .
So now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las Vegas and look West, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost see the high-water mark — that place where the wave finally broke and rolled back.
- Hunter S. Thompson, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey into the Heart of the American Dream
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