George Carlin was in our face and he told us, he told us, he flat out fucking told us over and over: Everything we know is a lie, everything we believe in is a magician's dream.
That is why he should be remembered. This nonsense that his only contribution was allowing swear words on TV, that is a distraction.
We live in a Kingdom of Lies, we live an Empire of Dreams. How can anyone believe in this parade of bullshit and this cryptic nonsense? Only because you yourself are also sleepwalking through a dream. Listen to the man.
They don't give a fuck about you. At all. At all. At all.
Wake up, please. Voting for anyone in the two-party dictatorship is not freedom, it is slavery. Do not vote at all.
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Sounds to me like he wasn't talking directly to power at all, but a room full of poor saps that bought tickets to his show. Obviously nobody in power was listening.
Why should anyone in power listen? What do they care? They don't care. That is the point. The democracy is a charade, the Republic has been sold.
I understand, and agree with you. I just don't think George Carlin was a particularly good spokesman for the masses.
Joni V hugs a Kanomi :o *MUAH* (And i dont give a fuck about them =^.^=)
Who is a good spokesman? It's all fine and well to read counterpunch and antiwar.com but they are just blogs. I am not figurehead, I am a clownish SL character.
The problem with any "spokesman for the masses is that they can only outline the problem, never lay out the solution. As soon as they spell out the answer, they become an Enemy of the State.
When the news media has been compromised, when the means by which a democracy can function (the ballot) has been compromised, when the people are rendered genuinely powerless and their rights are stripped away one by one, there truly is only one answer that can truly bring about real change.
And to speak that answer in public is tantamount to treason.
This used to be, but there was one last line they could not cross.
But technology has made personal firearms irrelevant. They are not afraid of us anymore. A few hundred thousand gun owners spread around the states of the West armed with hunting rifles and shotguns?
Against an Imperial Military straddling the world with 500 military bases, millions of personnel, using Stealth fighters and wielding more nuclear missiles than the rest of the world combined?
It is a joke. It is a fraud. They have reduced the militias and the ability of the common citizen to resist to a joke. To a joke.
The National Guard and all state military formations have been nationalized and sent off to fight Imperial wars. Imperial wars.
Nobody here can stop the thieves. Nobody can stop the liars. There is no end to it.
None.
I think George Carlin was a perfect voice for this sentiment, because he didn't mince words. May he rest in peace.
Aaron Russo was another voice carrying this message. I blogged about him over here on Xanga and found your excellent little blog entry while looking for quotes about our dear little "kingdom of lies."
I think Thomas Jefferson and Sam Adams and those other firebrands were pretty clear about what to do when our freedoms are compromised and the Republic has fallen-- and it involves bloodshed.
Half the stuff the Founding Fathers said would land you in Federal Prison these days. But I think you are correct in saying that falling back on our Right to Bear Arms is not enough. The world is much more complicated these days, and an armed resistance could be easily nullified. I suppose that leaves us with being outspoken, mobilizing community, lots of education and "talking over the kitchen table" like Carlin mentioned, being active in our citizenship, and figuring out (together) how to raise up a new Republic from the ashes of the old. If we don't generate some good ideas, trust me, a lot of bad ideas will be acted on. Just look at all this misguided terrorism going on-- homegrown and otherwise.
Thanks for the comment. I couldn't agree more that George Carlin just basically laid it out in this clip the reality that most people cannot see: that the democracy is a charade.
But if you like the phrase "kingdom of lies" you might like I made a whole blog of that name:
http://kingdomoflies.blogspot.com/
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