I just see that I can agree with Carlin that for the most part people really are bad and rotten to the core,.
I look at Carlin a little differently. He describes himself as sort of standing apart from humanity and observing what's going on, watching the "freak show" and reporting on it. In a very real sense he has gotten "out of his head" by standing apart from people and gotten into a neutral observer role. From that point of neutrality the actions of the world's people are quite insane because of their destructive nature; destructive to others as well as themselves. That's the show that's going on, and that's the show Carlin is reporting, and it certainly looks like a "freak show". It's like he is a mirror and is reflecting back to people their own insanity. But he didn't go quite deep enough into the observer, and the result is a cynical attitude that he turned into a brilliant presentation.
We all have that reference point of neutrality, but at our core there is something even deeper - it's there but unnoticed. It's discovered, however, when it's realized that we've become trapped in our minds, but when we look we find that we are not our minds. We have lived our lives as though thoughts are the basis of reality. No wonder the world is so screwed up, just look at the kind of thinking that drives people to act. That's the problem - look at all the weird and crazy thoughts people have, and in a lot of cases that thinking yields destructive actions. There is something deeper within us that isn't dependent upon thinking, something that is common to all of us, something that is rooted in silence and peace. What would happen if people led their lives from that place rather than from their minds?
Perhaps all of this recent world turmoil can be a force for good by prodding humanity to at last look elsewhere for answers, to find what we are beneath the crazy noise of the mind and some of its more bizarre notions. For our world to survive this has to happen to people throughout the world, otherwise humanity will be swept away in a tsunami of destructive human activity. It's time to wake up from the insane dreamlike world that people have created, a world of division and turmoil, and return to what's common to us all and act from there. And as long as one person can do it there is hope for humanity.