Bill Hicks By Rich Mills

What is the world? For it is not the planet, that is just a place where the world has found a home. The world is us the people! The human race.. As the song goes.. "We are the world, we are the people." Anyway that is all little more than US-career-boosting-corporate-schmaltz, but does have a certain truth to it.

However I'm digressing from my point. Which is actually the now-dead razor-sharp comedian and 'commentator on life', Bill Hicks. Having recently, as Hicks himself advised, squeegeed my third-eye (Listen to Bill Hicks - Rant In E Minor!) I decided it was time some of Hicks' thoughts on the world where shared with others.

Among the many fantastic pieces of dark-poetry, and razor-sharp ranting on the state of society, there were many moments of genius. Even though many of the recordings of Hicks are from the early to mid-nineties, they are still fresh and relevant today. Especially in relation to his rants about Saddam and Bush (Senator at the time).

The similarities to recent and current events make the hairs on the back of your neck stand-up! Anyway, back to the newly cleaned third-eye I mentioned earlier. Below is an extract from a Hicks rant, regarding the consumption of.. Well you work-out what Hicks had consumed before he came-up wit this little gem!

"My god I love everything! The heavens part, God reigned down gifts of forgiveness onto my being. Healing me on every level. Both psychically, mentally and emotionally. And I realised that our true natural spirit is not the body. That we are eternal beings, and God's love is unconditional. That there is nothing we ever do to change that. It is only our illusion that we are separate from God. Or that we are alone! In fact the reality is that we are one with God and he loves us."

"Now if that isn't a danger to this country, I don't know what is. How are we going to keep building nuclear weapons? What's gonna happen to the arms industry, when we realise we are all one!? That's gonna fuck-up the economy. The economy that's fake anyway! Which would be a real bummer.. Yeah!" "See why the governments are cracking-down on the idea of experiencing unconditional love!?"

If you have the opportunity, get your hands on any Bill Hicks that you can. Listen to it, take notice of what this dark-poet has to say about the state of the world. And although you my roll around laughing at his sharply observed comedy, there is a sadness behind the truth of what this man had to say. Extract from, Bill Hicks - Rant In E Minor Links www.billhicks.com

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