As to the topic statement, a big "no duh." It's a formula that's time-tested I suppose.
Far too many American consumers gobble it up in hypocritical fashion.
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Ah, Bill Hicks worship. He's
okay. Yeah, I can't stand Billy Ray Cyrus either.
Hicks probably had more to say than the other rambler, Lenny Bruce, yeah, I'll give him that, but a lot of it is hippie hodgepodge. Then again, Bill has a lot of punk in him too; maybe that's why I like him also. I can explain at length and dissect his routines if ya want. I suppose Lenny was Beatnik hodepodge. Don't get me wrong, I like both, but at some point worship kicks in and the worshipper fails to look at things critically--as they really are. If someone really thinks that Bill Hicks had some kind of untouchable sage's wisdom, if they think that he had some special message or knowledge, then I'm not so sure they think very much at all. He gets about as much wrong as he does right. And, he's *cough* highly contradictory at times.
If I were to put up a poll of Steve Martin vs. Bill Hicks, Bill would vanquish Steve and people wouldn't even consider that Steve is a lot more philosophical. Instead they would point to Steve's "sellout" as a way to discredit his zenith.
Anyway, another rant.