“There’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got. Because the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the REAL owners, now. The REAL owners, the BIG WEALTHY business interests that control things and make all the important decisions — forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. YOU DON’T. You have no choice.
You have OWNERS. They OWN YOU. They own EVERYTHING. They own all the important land, they own and control the corporations; they’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the State houses, the City Halls; they’ve got the judges in their back pockets, and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.
They gotcha by the BALLS. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying — lobbying to get what they want. Well, we know what they want — they want MORE for themselves and less for everybody else. But I’ll tell you what they don’t want. They DON’T want a population of citizens capable of critical thinking. They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people capable of critical thinking.
They’re not interested in that, that doesn’t help them. That’s against their interests. That’s right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they’re getting FUCKED by the system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago. They don’t want that.
You know what they want? They want OBEDIENT WORKERS. OBEDIENT WORKERS. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they’re comin’ for your SOCIAL SECURITY MONEY. They want your fuckin’ retirement money. They want it BACK. So they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it ALL from you sooner or later — ‘cuz they OWN this fuckin’ place. It’s a big CLUB. And YOU AIN’T IN IT. You and I are NOT IN the big club. By the way, it’s the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long, beating you over the in their media telling you what to believe — what to think — and what to buy. The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged. And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.
Good honest hard-workin people — white collar, blue collar — doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-workin people CONTINUE — these are people of modest means — continue to elect these RICH COCKSUCKERS who don’t GIVE a fuck about them. They don’t give a fuck about you, they don’t GIVE A FUCK ABOUT YOU. THEY DON’T CARE ABOUT YOU — AT ALL. AT ALL. AT ALL. You know? And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care … that’s what the owners count on, the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes every day.
Because the owners of this country know the truth — it’s called the American Dream … ‘cuz you have to be asleep to believe it.”
George Carlin
I like to say my stories are 99% true. And I believe they are stories 99% representative of those of us who are not in the 1%. I do not work for Keyser Soze.
She works for me in the interests of the 99% and most of the folks who post and lurk here. My thanks to all who help me in a quest to wrest a semblance of sanity from subjugation and abuse; and form an inchoate resurrection of what offers relief.
George Carlin was right about so many things. Could you imagine his unfettered rage if he was here now……..
I quote the dear departed George Carlin often , now it’s 50 years where average Americans were tossed overboard or under the bus . It should be obvious to anyone now that the situations for far to many people are declining or in dire straights . Just because things are OK for me and you does not mean that for everyone else . Real wages are in the shitter and cost of living continues to rise for average people as the news media and government continue to tell us it’s not . We all have eyes and we all get monthly bills .
Recently the local county council announced quietly that they are examining privately owned property and personal savings accounts as untapped sources of revanue . Anyone care to guess what the fuck that means . He who hath shall have less and he who has nothing shall have it taken from him !
The party is over and the shit can and will hit the fan ! What where and when and how it will happen is unclear . It will probably be triggered by a series of a few unlikely chain of events back to back . Prepare to duck !
His stuff is as timely now as it was when 1st spoken. An amazing man.
I always wondered what he meant when he said “threw them overboard 30 fuckin’ years ago.” I don’t know if the chronology works but I always assumed he meant the Kennedy coup. For sure someone with his perception and keen eye for critical analysis wasn’t going to buy into the Warren bullshit story. That was certainly my Rubicon, when it really set in on me that democracy and voting was a trick-a ploy used by the few to control the many. Isn’t that the gist of what Carlin was trying to say to us here? I sure miss him.
Government monopoly “education” provided through their gulag of day prisons will ALWAYS suck. Outside of that indoctrination and propaganda system there will ALWAYS be superior and REAL education.
Thank you, I have listened a few times but reading it fucking pisses me off even more.
There is a similar cadence to your prose when written. Rapid fire facts, leaving little room for responce, due to simple thruthfulness, resulting in confident anger.