The Wisdom of George Carlin

A few days ago George Carlin died. It really bummed me out. George Carlin was a hero of mine. He had the ability to cut through all the smoke and mirrors by which the establishment operates and give us an unfettered view of our reality. I can't think of anyone who can replace him.

In a tribute to George, what follows is an entry I made here about a year ago.

"Some of our greatest social critics are comedians. They really good ones have the ability to hold up a mirror so we can observe the absurdity our societal conditions.

In their nightly monologues Jay Leno and David Letterman give us a glimpse of our deteriorating political situation, something the mainline media portrays with sobriety.

One of the greatest takes on what’s happening to the American people was summed up by George Carlin in his most recent HBO special.

Here it is (expletives deleted):

“ … The owners of this country don’t want (educated people).”

“I’m talking about the real owners now, the big, wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. They’ve got the politicians … politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice.

You don’t. You have no choice. 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 corporations so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.

They’ve got you by the balls. They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want. We all know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everyone 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 are not interested in that. That doesn’t help them. That’s not in 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 f----d by a system that threw them overboard thirty f------g years ago.

They don’t want that.

You know what they want? Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork and just dumb enough to passably accept all the increasingly sh---y jobs with lower pay, longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you get to collect it.

And now they are coming for your Social Security money. They want your f-----g 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 from you sooner or later ‘cause they own this
f------g place. It’s a big club, and you’re not 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 all day long where 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.

That table is tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hardworking people in white or blue collars—it doesn’t matter what color shirt you have on—good, honest, hardworking people continue to elect these sick c---------rs who don’t give a f--k 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 (of this country) count on, the fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue d--k being jammed up their a------s everyday.

Because the owners of this country know that truth is called The American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.”

Copyright 2005, George Carlin, HBO

Are we going to remain ignorant? A few media voices are speaking the truth about the loss of good jobs, the influx of illegal workers across the border, and the corruption of our politics. If you’d like to stay abreast of how our country is being sold out you might want to tune in Glen Beck (syndicated radio and CNN Headline News), Lou Dobbs (CNN), and Jerry Doyle (syndicated radio). All have web sites for additional information.

Remember, the first three words of the U.S. Constitution are “We the people.”"

(And if you read this far, you might want to consider the very next entry.)

The Mess We're In--A Different View

When I first began this blog I wanted to share my take on things. I felt a certain passion for the subjects about which I wrote—illegal immigration, corporate malfeasance, profiteering in our healthcare sector and, of course, the so-called ‘War on Terror.’

I’ve followed the ongoing presidential campaign, initially with interest, but to the eventual point of boredom. During that time I contributed little to this blog. I was trying to make up my mind. Who was right? Who was wrong? The candidates who said the things I wanted to hear are no longer in the race. It doesn’t matter who they are. They’re history.

A couple of friends send me information promoting their political philosophies. One is the conservative’s conservative, the other, the liberal’s liberal. I read what both send me. But I’ve come to the conclusion that neither philosophy has a franchise on the truth. Though I’ve always tended toward the conservative, I now believe that situations are constantly changing. Some situations call for a conservative approach, and some, the liberal.

I've gotten to the point that I don’t trust either one of the major party candidates. In my opinion neither one presents a good choice. The American people are presented with the same problem they’ve faced for nearly thirty years. The major parties present two imperfect choices. Each is beholding to interests that do not serve the best interests of the entire country.

I used to be a news junkie. Now I rarely watch it. With very few exceptions, it’s as though the major broadcast media is feeding us a daily diet of Pablum (fills you up with words and pictures, but contains little in the way of substance). Thank God for the Internet! How else would we really be able to find out about things? We can access an almost infinitely diverse range of opinions.

In entitling this blog ‘Middle Class Warrior,’ I wanted to promote the idea that war was being waged on the American Middle Class. Since I wrote my first entry we’ve experienced the mortgage/housing crisis, and now we are dealing with ever increasing gasoline prices. The latter is not only draining our wallets at the gas pump, but also showing up as higher prices in most commodities (food, clothing and all other goods that require over-the-road transportation).

So what’s going on? The Republicans blame the Democrats and the Democrats, the Republicans. I’ve come to believe that it’s not that simple. There is another agenda that we rarely hear about. It is one that manipulates both parties. It does so through political contributions and extortion.

If you look hard enough and listen well enough, you’ll find and hear dissonant voices. These are people who believe that there is a hidden agenda whose objective it is to destroy this country. It is an agenda that is covertly sponsored by people who consider themselves the world’s elite.

Yes, Virginia, there is a movement to expose the truth, but you won’t find it in the mainstream media. You won’t find it in the ‘liberal’ or the ‘conservative’ press, either. You might hear hints of it on popular ‘talk’ radio, but only on those programs that are willing to explore the unusual, like Coast-to Coast AM with George Noury.

But if you really want a heavy dose of an alternate theory, you need to check out Alex Jones. Over the last ten years, through his radio program and documentary films, Jones has built an impressive cottage industry exposing the existence of a cabal of elites attempting to control the world. I’ve been listening. Do I buy everything Jones and his cohorts are saying? Not everything. Yet. But I'm listening, and I’m wondering. Could it all be true?

If you’d like to consider what Jones says for yourself. You can access his radio program through his two web pages. They are http://www.prisonplanet.com/ and http://www.infowars.com/.

If you’d like to contribute to the foregoing, you can comment on this site by becoming a ‘blogger’ or you can e-mail me at WGDavis46@aol.com.