Sort-of memes that are cracking you up at the moment

Bill Hicks, sigh. At the time felt like a mushroom eating cosmic hero, lambasting anyone.
Now feels like someone who’s done one line too many and voted for brexit.

Oh yeah, cause a Brexit voter would totally say this in a million years:

The world is like a ride in an amusement park, and when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. The ride goes up and down, around and around, it has thrills and chills, and it's very brightly colored, and it's very loud, and it's fun for a while.

Many people have been on the ride a long time, and they begin to wonder, "Hey, is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us and say, "Hey, don't worry; don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we … kill those people.

"Shut him up! I've got a lot invested in this ride, shut him up! Look at my furrows of worry, look at my big bank account, and my family. This has to be real." It's just a ride. But we always kill the good guys who try and tell us that, you ever notice that? And let the demons run amok …

But it doesn't matter, because it's just a ride. And we can change it any time we want. It's only a choice. No effort, no work, no job, no savings of money. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love instead see all of us as one.

Here's what we can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money we spend on weapons and defenses each year and instead spend it feeding and clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would pay for many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, forever, in peace.

The vibe of being just a blob of awareness brought forth by a complicated and very temporary arrangement of matter, which can't take credit or blame for anything, seems to dovetail pretty well with a lot of ancient wisdom, particularly Zen Buddhism, which seems to exist in order to say to physics, I told you so.

Don't engage in Hicks self-flagellation.

Maybe he'd have ended up like Jorden Peterson. Maybe he'd have transitioned. Maybe he'd have been governor of California.

It doesn't matter, you don't need to go there.

He is perfectly encapsulated in time, existing solely in his era and no where else.

will never stop telling people "I was there MAN!" for his set at the dominion theatre, early 90s. Was amazing, mind blowingly gut achingly funny.
If you're that insightful and heartfelt at that age, i don't see him slipping into the narrow minded conservative leanings you think he might have edged towards, and even if he did, you'd still have the younger version live on cd.
Just like John Cleese's move towards reactionary thought doesn't, for me anyway, take away from his monty python/fawlty towers/fish called wanda work.