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GEORGE CARLIN, EVERYBODY LIKE HIM
by Hugo Adan
June 24-08
I think it’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately. – George Carlin
The best comedian of the US passed away. It is sad. See Democracy Now and INN Report in FSTV (june 24, 2008) on this regard. George Carlin was a man of principles and strong convictions. More than atheist he was a nihilist in a positive sense. Nihilist because he rejected institutionalized and decadent beliefs of this time. He also rejected the empty and perverted values of the establishment (democracy and freedom). He mock on them and in the elected servants of power (even on the candidates to the white house). He was the man whose satires made laugh people on their own stupid political beliefs. He was against the current. A positive nihilist.
Hugo Adan
Key question: Who are the owners of the US?
These are extracts from:
GEORGE CARLIN: AMERICAN RADICAL
by John Nichols
http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/06/24/9852/
THERE WAS HOPE UP TO 1972
The last vote that George Carlin said he cast in a presidential race was for George McGovern in 1972.
When Richard Nixon, who Carlin described as a member of a sub-species of humanity, overwhelmingly defeated McGovern, the comedian gave up on the political process.
“Now, there’s one thing you might have noticed I don’t complain about: politicians,” he explained in a routine that challenged all the premises of today’s half-a-loaf reformers. “Everybody complains about politicians. Everybody says they suck. Well, where do people think these politicians come from? They don’t fall out of the sky. They don’t pass through a membrane from another reality. They come from American parents and American families, American homes, American schools, American churches, American businesses and American universities, and they are elected by American citizens. This is the best we can do folks. This is what we have to offer.
It’s what our system produces: Garbage in, garbage out. If you have selfish, ignorant citizens, you’re going to get selfish, ignorant leaders. Term limits ain’t going to do any good; you’re just going to end up with a brand new bunch of selfish, ignorant Americans. So, maybe, maybe, maybe, it’s not the politicians who suck. Maybe something else sucks around here… like, the public. Yeah, the public sucks. There’s a nice campaign slogan for somebody: ‘The Public Sucks. Fuck Hope.’”
[El elector ha sido idiotizado en los EU, fue la conclusion de George Carlin]
HOPE TODAY?
No one, not Obama, not Hillary Clinton and certainly not John McCain. See the zeitgeist of the vanishing American dream. Why? Carlin gave us the right answer: the owners of this system.
“The owners of this country know the truth: [they use to talk about] the American dream .. you have to be asleep to believe it.”
Recalling George Bush’s ranting about how the endless “war on terror” is a battle for freedom, Carlin echoed James Madison’s thinking with a simple question:
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”
Carlin preached against the consolidation of wealth and power with a fire-and-brimstone rage; in doing so he defied the deep immorality that could never quite be cloaked with the four-letter-word F...
THE OWNERS KILLED ANY CHANCE OF HOPE IN THE US
“The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they’re an irrelevancy. 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 statehouses, the city halls. They’ve got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They’ve 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,” ranted the comedian whose routines were studied in graduate schools.
“But I’ll tell you what they don’t want,” Carlin continued. “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. 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 a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers - people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, 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. They want your fucking 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, sooner or later, because 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.”
Carlin did not want Americans to get involved with the system.
He wanted citizens to get angry enough to remake the system.
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