In my lifetime, George Carlin was America's
most insightful political comedian.
If you can deal with extreme profanity, watch his "American Dream," an incomparably insightful political analysis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
If you can deal with extreme profanity, watch his "American Dream," an incomparably insightful political analysis - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q
Carlin's "Dream" reminds me that Tea Bags -- long mistaken concerning the object of
their rage -- are within spitting distance of correcting their error.
How could it be otherwise?
The 1% who "own them" are devoted to outsourcing, automation and the seductive allure of "trickle down." http://www.vanityfair.com/society/features/2011/05/top-one-percent-201105
They are committed to job elimination, not job creation. http://www.slate.com/
With malice aforethought, they push The Middle Class into The Lower Class, and The Lower Class into The Under Class.
When the disenfranchised die, they cheer.
On the right side of the aisle, consider Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter's promotional "spot" for the
ill-fated "Half Hour News Hour," Fox's embarrassing "reply"
to Jon Stewart's The Daily
Show - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F49e64yq8lI
There is nothing funny in this skit. Rather, it features two
puerile adults, their development arrested on long-forgotten middle school
playgrounds.)
"There is just enough bullshit to hold things together in this country. Bullshit is the glue, that binds us as a nation. Where would we be without our safe, familiar, American bullshit? Land of the free, home of the brave, the American dream, all men are equal, justice is blind, the press is free, your vote counts, business is honest, the good guys win, the police are on your side, god is watching you, your standard of living will never decline… and everything is going to be just fine— The official national bullshit story. I call it the American okie doke. Every one, every one of those items is provably untrue at one level or another, but we believe them because they're pounded into our heads from the time we're children. That's what they do with that kind of thing—pound it into the heads of kids, ‘cause they know the children are much too young to be able to muster an intellectual defense against a sophisticated idea like that, and they know that up to a certain age children believe everything their parents tell them. And as a result, they never learn to question things. Nobody questions things in this country anymore. Nobody questions it—everybody is too fat and happy. Everybody's got a cell phone that'll make pancakes and rub their balls now— Way too fucking prosperous for our own good. Way too fucking prosperous, Americans have been bought off and silenced by toys and gizmos. And no one learns to question things."
George Carlin
(We have) a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace."
George Carlin
(We have) a choice, right now, between fear and love. The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourselves off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one. Here's what you can do to change the world, right now, to a better ride. Take all that money that we spend on weapons and defense each year, and instead spend it feeding, clothing and educating the poor of the world, which it would many times over, not one human being excluded, and we could explore space, together, both inner and outer, for ever, in peace."
George Carlin
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