George Carlin - A Prophet?

This came to me as I was thinking about the cover of this week's TIME Magazine for its article on the Person of the Year. That cover is a computer moniter with a foil mirror screen to reflect back the face of the reader.

I remember a routine that George Carlin did many years ago (when he was funny) that was about the growing narcicism in our culture. He was talking about the changes in the subject of the magazines. He started out saying that at 1st there was LIFE magazine. That covered everything. Then out came PEOPLE, not as broad as LIFE but still pretty brouad. Next was US, even more narrowly focused. He said that 1 day it would get to the point that as our society got so self-centered there would be a magazine that came out that would consist of several foil pages that would simply reflect the face of the reader.

It seems that for once he got it right.