Lewis Black on the Sanity of Bed Bugs

After debuting last week, Lewis Black's Root of All Evil has blown up to become television's most-watched show starring Lewis Black that debuted last week. Starpulse has just posted an interview with the Daily Show contributor-turned-ringmaster, in which he talks about technology, the youth of America and this:

And what do you think it will take for people to make time to think for themselves or to care?
It's like a big pendulum and eventually people will kind of start thinking. You get to the point where there are actually articles about families really having to remember to make time to eat together. "We have to have three meals together a week." Three? We ate dinner together every night, my family and I. I don't know when the world changed in such a fashion. I think that eventually will people go, "Ooh, yeah, that's right." I think the pendulum seems to swing and it goes in one direction and then it gets completely out of control that way and it starts to come back. For all they scream about family values, they're really pretty simple. But it starts with paying attention to your kids and eating dinner with them. It's stuff that used to be rudimentary and people just seem to need to re-learn. I hope they will.

And when was the last time that the pendulum swung to the extreme?
In the late 60s it went way to the left, at least among the kids. And I think what we're seeing now is the pendulum pointing the other way and I think this is the comeuppance for that time. This is all of those guys who were in college, who felt disenfranchised, and it was like, "Ok, I'm going to show you." And there they are. These are all the people I went to school with who were crazier than bed bugs at the time, and you can quote me on that, with my little southern cracker vernacular, wherever the f*ck "crazier than bed bugs" came from.

The rest of the interview is at Lewis Black Gets Down to 'The Root Of All Evil'. Meanwhile, if you haven't yet seen the show, there's an hilarious clip after the jump.