I found a very liberating position for myself, as an artist… and that was: I sort ofgave up on the human race, I gave up on the American dream and culture and decided that I didn’t care about the outcome. (this means) Not having an emotional stake in whether this experiment with human beings works, I really don’t care. I love people as I meet them one by one, people are just wonderful as individuals, you just see thew whole universe in their eyes if you look carefully. …but as soon as they begin to group, as soon as they begin to clot, when there are 5 of them or 10, even a group as small as 2, they begin to change, they sacrifice the beauty of the individual for the sake of the group. I decided that is all under the control of groups now, whether is business, religion, political people or what and I will distance myself from “wishing for a good outcome”. ...There is a little bit of a sick part in this too: I root for the big comet, I root for the big asteroid, to come and make things right.

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This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I found a very liberating position for myself, as an artist… and that was: I sort ofgave up on the human race, I gave up on the American dream and culture and decided that I didn’t care about the outcome. (this means) Not having an emotional stake in whether this experiment with human beings works, I really don’t care. I love people as I meet them one by one, people are just wonderful as individuals, you just see thew whole universe in their eyes if you look carefully. …but as soon as they begin to group, as soon as they begin to clot, when there are 5 of them or 10, even a group as small as 2, they begin to change, they sacrifice the beauty of the individual for the sake of the group. I decided that is all under the control of groups now, whether is business, religion, political people or what and I will distance myself from “wishing for a good outcome”. ...There is a little bit of a sick part in this too: I root for the big comet, I root for the big asteroid, to come and make things right." in the context of "George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (HBO, 1997)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.