It's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

[LightAngel]

I have been thinking about George Carlin today, and how right he was about many things - so I want to share some of his words.

Enjoy: 


There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education sucks, and it’s the same reason that it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It’s never gonna get any better. Don’t look for it. Be happy with what you 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 got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear.

They got you 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. Thats against their interests. Thats right. They don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking 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 coming for your Social Security money. They want your 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, 'cause they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you ain’t in it. You and I are not in the big club.
 
And 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 head 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-working people -- white collar, blue collar, it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on -- good honest hard-working 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.

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 everyday. Because the owners of this country know the truth: it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.

― George Carlin

[Nerb]

I Love "Boat Rockers". They have the necessary perspectives so many are afraid to consider, especially openly like our dear Mr Carlin.

Thanks for sharing you Light-spreading Little Angel. 

[MichSwampbuck]

I liked reading it, although, I can imagine Carlin's delivery.

[DontTreadOnMe]

I have been thinking about George Carlin today, and how right he was about many things - so I want to share some of his words.

Enjoy: 



― George Carlin

Thanks for posting that.  I was thinking about that segment recently....almost dug out the old DVDs.

So much of his material was so damn prescient.   It's scary.
I wonder if George would even be allowed to perform in today's climate.
Or would he just meet an untimely death.

[Nerb]

I wonder if George would even be allowed to perform in today's climate.
Or would he just meet an untimely death.

He would perform as well as he always has and have an endless bunch of security people with more and more members of the public on his side the more he got in trouble. He used facts like knives and they always hit the mark.

He would probably win a Presidental Election. Then get taken out.

[DBCowboy]

Does it matter?

We just try to do the best we can with what we have.

We just try to provide for our own.

Trying to change the system is as effective as pissing in a fan.  It might make you feel better at first, but in the end, you're still the one who's wet.

I just laugh and enjoy the show.

Currently I'm binge-watching Trump Season 2.

[IdeomotorPrisoner]

It's still somewhat valid.  Once everyone copied our constitution it kinda became the First World Dream, but each dream has its strong points and weaknesses. 

Since the OP is Immortal Comedy Store Royalty, lets talk Hollywood. 

Like you'd think Hollywood, the apex of the American Dream (a la Californication), is liberal or TOTAL DEI, but like EVERYTHING ELSE, the privileged are an Oligarch. 

Same type of inherited luck goes into living the dream. Instead of having daddy get you into Penn with several draft deferrments, they market some producer/actor/director's kid's worthless portfolio/demo, and even witn no talent of their own, get representation. Everyone else without the industry in have an almost insurmountable chance, regardless of talent level.

Is Kate Hudson getting A-Cup A List represention without Goldie Hawn? Is Polly Shore annoying you in the 90s without his family's aforementioned club? 

And that's how every dream of being rich and famous works. 

Of course there's always the kid who's father walked out and grew up poor with a single mom working 3 jobs. They have a hard knock motivation and quicker maturity that allows them to make more adult choices younger. Girls generally earlier than boys by several years. 

But they're the ones that hit the non-oligarch jackpot. Had they been a spoiled middle class millennial without any real adversity they would have made completely different decisions and not gravitated towards the jackpot.

It's there, but the dream is for the privileged, the absolutely motivated, and the lucky.

Bad Religion has such great lyrics. He went to Cornell (or at least that's what Gilmore Girls said), so it makes sense. Short. Sweet. And true beyond Southern California. 




Lyrics:

Hey see, there's a girl
Who's afraid of the world so she stays at home
Also a boy
Who seems so lost in his joy, he's all alone

The camera's on them, they're in the land of competition
Southern California air feeds them
And they know they are best 'cause of the way they are dressed
But you can bet you are not welcome in their home

Hey see, there's a girl
Who sits and watches the world from her blue screen
Also a boy
Who truly wants to destroy his hometown scene
They both want to travel to the land of competition
Southern California will destroy them
And they won't be the best, they'll be the poseurs who dress
Like the plastic idiots who they copy

Tell me what do you need to make you happy?
Indeed, is it out of your reach?
Beware of number one
See all the damage it has done, there are so few of them.

You won't find too many in the land of competition
Southern California doesn't breed them
If you just want the best turn to yourself for the rest
And forget about the ones who have it all

Be careful of the ones who have it all
Be careful of the ones who have it all
Forget about the ones who have it all

[LightAngel]

Thanks for posting that.  I was thinking about that segment recently....almost dug out the old DVDs.

So much of his material was so damn prescient.   It's scary.
I wonder if George would even be allowed to perform in today's climate.
Or would he just meet an untimely death.

I would love to hear what he had to say about the Epstein list. 

[putnam6]

It's still somewhat valid.  Once everyone copied our constitution it kinda became the First World Dream, but each dream has its strong points and weaknesses. 

Since the OP is Immortal Comedy Store Royalty, lets talk Hollywood. 

Like you'd think Hollywood, the apex of the American Dream (a la Californication), is liberal or TOTAL DEI, but like EVERYTHING ELSE, the privileged are an Oligarch. 

Same type of inherited luck goes into living the dream. Instead of having daddy get you into Penn with several draft deferrments, they market some producer/actor/director's kid's worthless portfolio/demo, and even witn no talent of their own, get representation. Everyone else without the industry in have an almost insurmountable chance, regardless of talent level.

Is Kate Hudson getting A-Cup A List represention without Goldie Hawn? Is Polly Shore annoying you in the 90s without his family's aforementioned club? 

And that's how every dream of being rich and famous works. 

Of course there's always the kid who's father walked out and grew up poor with a single mom working 3 jobs. They have a hard knock motivation and quicker maturity that allows them to make more adult choices younger. Girls generally earlier than boys by several years. 

But they're the ones that hit the non-oligarch jackpot. Had they been a spoiled middle class millennial without any real adversity they would have made completely different decisions and not gravitated towards the jackpot.

It's there, but the dream is for the privileged, the absolutely motivated, and the lucky.

Bad Religion has such great lyrics. He went to Cornell (or at least that's what Gilmore Girls said), so it makes sense. Short. Sweet. And true beyond Southern California. 

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Lyrics:

Polly Shore? hey buuuud, what did I do to you? Make you watch BioDome and Jury Duty back to back 

did Pauly Shore have a sister or a sex change?  

In some circles, it's suggested that the real-world wealthy, celebrities, sports stars, and entertainers live in purgatory when they die. Especially the unworthy

While common folk get thier afterlife assignment adjudicated immediately. 

So I got that going for me... 

Some suggest that's partially the reason for religion, average Joe humans have been toiling away for thousands of years, they needed the belief in a glorious afterlife to deal with all the humanly mundane drudgery and bullshit. Otherwise, the GP occasionally would go bugchit and rebel and burn government buildings and attack Federal officers

Right or wrong, real or imagined, generally, don't those who believe our life force, our energy, our aura, our souls cheat code our human death and go on, have a better set of coping skills for our worldly existence?

Omitting those that shoot up the offices of a satire magazine for a cartoon or lop the heads off the infidels they come across.

[Nerb]

Does it matter?

We just try to do the best we can with what we have.

We just try to provide for our own.

Trying to change the system is as effective as pissing in a fan.  It might make you feel better at first, but in the end, you're still the one who's wet.

I just laugh and enjoy the show.

Currently I'm binge-watching Trump Season 2.

The world is what you make it, so enjoy yourself and forget about everyone else eh?

Cheers.