My co-worker Alisha and I were talking today about the movie "Falling Down". The movie starring Michael Douglass, is about a man displaced from his job who's mad at the world. He keeps running into injustice and absurdity as he travels across Los Angeles to his ex-wife's home in Venice Beach. The movie gives great insight into the ills of society. George Carlin does the same.

I have a quote from George Carlin over my desk about the adsurdity of the way "Man" thinks. Here it is: Think for a moment about flamethrowers. The fact that we have them at all. What it indicates to me is that at some point, some person said to himself, "Look at all those people across the road. What I wouldn't give to set them on fire. But I'm much too far away. If only I had some device that would shoot flames on them."

Society needs more people like George Carlin and movies like "Falling Down" to put a mirror in front of our face to show us how absurd we act at times. And then shake us up enough to want to do something about it.