Norm Macdonald

Interviewed on "What's So Funny" This is a nineteen minute segment of an hour and 30 minute interview that begins with the smallness and limiting of self-identifying and develops to a discussion about intuition, God and atheism, in which we learn, distressingly, that Norm Macdonald hates sunsets.

Following the closed captions is another layer of amusement.

Hates sunsets. The man's not right.

What about sunrises, then?  

Sunsets are fascinating as sunrises because they're a transition period in which change appears so abrupt that you can actually intuit your place on a sphere and if you are watching then you're also sufficiently contemplative to imagine the place of your sphere among celestial spheres, and that's exceedingly trippy. Come on, Norm. I urge you to reconsider. The beauty of both sunsets and sunrises is incidental to them marking off the time available to you wonder about all this, to contemplate your time allowed to you on this Earth, to ponder the stages of your garden and to ruminate your various gardens, their coming and going, your family and your family's place among families.  Watching the sun setting and observing the stars come into view unites you with all humanity since the beginning of mankind on Earth and with all those who are yet unborn who come after you. It's awesome. It's humbling. Contemplating the connections blows your mind.

You would not believe, maybe you would, the number of people who get up very early in the morning every single day of the week, full tours of people on buses, to drive up to the top of Haleakala on Maui just to bundle up in blankets and watch a sunrise.