A Tribute to George Carlin
I remember going to see George Carlin in person, Live at the Universal Amphitheater when I was going to school in Long Beach and studying engineering. I was already starting to come to my current view of things as I had had several close calls when down in the LA area and friends die. I just couldn't handle the absurdity of life and living at the time. Then I saw George who made me realize that the absurdities were something that you had to laugh at to get through.... Thanks George. You will be missed:
Labels: Comedy, History, Minutae and Triviata, Philosophy, Truth
posted by In the Garden of the Warrior Monk at 8:35 AM
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THANK YOU. I needed that. Watching this clip I can see a continuum from Lenny Bruce to George Carlin to Robin Williams.
Here's some cool George Carlin quotes:
“If crime fighters fight crime and firefighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight?”
“Boy these conservatives are really something aren’t they? They’re all in favor of the unborn. They will do anything for the unborn, but once you’re born you’re on your own! Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine months. After that they don’t want to know about you, they don’t want to hear from you, no nothing. No neo-natal care, no day care, no Head Start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing! If you're pre-born you’re fine – if you’re pre-school you’re f**ked!”
“…There is a reason education sucks! And it’s the same reason it will never, ever, ever be fixed…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. 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 the big media companies so they can control just about all 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’re not interested in that, that doesn’t help them, that’s against their interests…
“You know what they want, they want: Obedient workers! ... People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work, and just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh*ttier jobs. Jobs with lower pay, longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. Now they’re coming for your Social Security money! They want your f**king retirement money! They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street … The owners of this country know the truth. It’s called ‘The American Dream,’ because you have to be asleep to believe it!”
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