Garrison Keillor

Garrison Keillor is a prolific author with over 100 of written or recorded works. He is also a storyteller, performance artist, radio host and comedian.

“This is not that bad” - 11/30/2011

Transcript

This is not that bad. This is the rock-bottom truth. There are people who thrive on dramatizing it, many of them on television, many of them highly paid pundits, who thrive on creating a sense of chaos and suffering and deprivation.

But if you want to see deprivation, go to India, other countries. Go to Somalia, if you

want to see real trouble. Go to the North of Africa. You‘ll find a reality that we don‘t have in America. And we‘ve come loose from our sense of reality, and we need to discover it somehow. I don‘t know how that‘s going to happen, but it has to. We have to realize that, in this world among our species, we are among the most fortunate in the history of the world. And if we want to know what true suffering is, what abject suffering is, we don‘t have to look that far.