When you're born you get a ticket to the freak show. When you're born in America, you get a front row seat.

George Carlin

Replace USA with India and it works even better. 

My general policy is if I really like some stand up, art or music, I’ll share it with 3-4 people. And we generally enjoy a good chuckle over a drink. 

I’ve generally stopped worrying about free speech simply because most of our public isn’t worth speaking to. Trying to get any public discourse or engagement going with uncomfortable or honest material in this country is a fools endeavour. 

The people who probably agree with you have no power to change a damn thing. And the folks who get riled up over politics, bad jokes, nudity, movies, language, mosques, churches and temples deserve to get manipulated and ripped off by politicians and demagogues.

I know that’s not how free speech works. A key tenet of tolerance is the ability to let someone laugh at or enjoy content we don’t like, understand or hate. You simply ignore what you don’t like and encourage what you enjoy.

But that tolerance does not exist. Simply put, it’s not worth speaking truth to power when you have no faith, conviction or love for the land or people. 

So I am just going to enjoy the good stuff in private.