Carlin’s personal politics were readily identifiable. Kelly Carlin said her father was “99 percent progressive” and that he raised her in a manner that today might be contemptuously dismissed as woke.

“He taught me from Day 1 that the Black and brown people have always been oppressed, horribly and systematically, by the owners of wealth,” she said. “He had a pure disdain and loathing for white men in America.”

Did you know there’s a website with “a linked list of quotes and essays that often get falsely attributed to George Carlin“? The most famous being “The Paradox of Our Time” (a.k.a. “The Paradox of Our Age”) and old enough that Carlin was still around to declare he didn’t write it.

“One of the more embarrassing items [attributed to me] making the internet/e-mail rounds is a sappy load of shit called “The Paradox of our time.” The main problem I have with it is that as true as some of the expressed sentiments may be, who really gives a shit? Certainly not me. I figured out years ago that the human species is totally fucked and has been for a long time. I also know that the sick, media-consumer culture in America continues to make this so-called problem worse. But the trick, folks, is not to give a fuck. Like me. I really don’t care. I stopped worrying about all this temporal bullshit a long time ago. It’s meaningless. (See the preface of “Brain Droppings (1997).”)

Another problem I have with “Paradox” is that the ideas are all expressed in a sort of pseudo-spiritual, New-Age-y, “Gee-whiz-can’t-we-do-better-than-this” tone of voice. It’s not only bad prose and poetry, it’s weak philosophy. I hope I never sound like that.

In a week, HBO will release a new two-part HBO documentary, “George Carlin’s American Dream”.

It’s funny because his American Dream line is one that has been misused and repurposed in his absense, but at its essence, it’s the evolution of Carlin the comedian from the Hippy-Dippy Weather Man to the gray-haired man telling the world the truth.

“It’s called the American dream because you have to be asleep to believe it.”.