That makes sense to me. He is from a different time when there was just less audible chaos being pumped into our lives. You could easily go a whole day without

That makes sense to me. He is from a different time when there was just less audible chaos being pumped into our lives. You could easily go a whole day without someone throwing a hyper-edited escalating sonic experience at you. Now, after decades of movie trailers one-upping each other and those editing capabilities being distributed to teenagers, we are maximally sonically marinated and we expect some politeness when people are trying to deliver sound bites. In Carlin’s time watching an act like his was possibly the most exciting verbal experience you would be exposed to that week, if not that year. We cherished the performers who could dial up to 12 without losing coherence because it was rare and exciting. Now it sounds overblown and maybe a little aggressive to a modern ear.