George Carlin: Life Is Worth Losing Page #6
- TV-MA
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- 2005
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got at home, anyway!
Not too bright, folks!
Not too f***ing bright!
But if you talk to one of them about this,
the guys will be sitting down, rationally,
you talk to them about low IQs, and their
dumb behavior, and their bad decisions...
...right away they start
talking about education!
That's the big answer to
everything! Education!
That's why we need more
money for education!
We need more books, more teachers,
more classrooms, more schools!
We need more testing for the kids!
They say:
"Well, you know,we tried all of that
and the kids still can't
pass the tests!"
They say:
"Oh, don't you worry about that!We're gonna lower the passing grades!"
That's what they're doing
at a lot of these schools!
Now they're lowering the passing
grades so more kids can pass!
More kids pass, the school
looks good, everybody's happy,
another two or three points...
...and pretty soon all you need to get
into College is a f***ing pencil!
Got a pencil? Get the f*** in there!
It's Physics!
Then everyone wonders why 17 other countries
graduate more scientists than we do...
"Education!" Politicians know that word!
They use it on you!
Politicians have traditionally hidden
behind three things:
The flag, the Bible
and children!
"No child left behind!",
"No child left behind!"
Oh, really? Well, it wasn't long ago they were
talking about giving kids a head start!
Head start? Left behind?
Someone's losing f***ing ground here!
But there's a reason, there's a reason,
there's a reason for this...
There's a reason education sucks,
and it's the same reason that
will never, ever, ever, be fixed...
It's never gonna get any better!
Don't look for it!
Be happy with what
you've got!
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!
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 State Houses, the City Halls...
They've got the judges
in their back pockets,
and they all own all the big media
companies, so they 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 everyboy 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're not interested in that!
That doesn't help them!
That's against their interest!
That's right!
They don't want people who are smart enough to
sit around the kitchen table and figure out how
badly they're getting f***ed by a system that
threw it overboard thirty f***ing years ago...
They don't want that! You know what
they want? They want obedient workers!
Obedient workers!
People who are just smart enough to run
the machines and do the paperwork,
and just dumb enough
to passively accept...
...all these increasingly shittier jobs,
with the lower pay, the longer hours,
the 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
They want your f***ing 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 from you sooner or later!
'Cause they own this f***ing place!
It's a big club! And you ain't in it!
You and I are not in the big club!
By the way, it's the same big
club that used to beat you over
the head with all day long and
they tell you what to believe...
All day long, beating you
over the head in the media,
telling you what to believe,
what to think and what to buy...
The table is tilted, folks!
The game is rigged!
Good honest, hard-working people!
White collar, blue collar...
Doesn't matter what
colour shirt you have on!
Good honest, hard-working
people continue...
These are people of
modest means...!
...continue to elect these rich cocksuckers
who don't give a f*** about them!
They don't give a f*** about you!
They don't care about you!
At all! At all! At all!
Yeah! You know?
nobody seems to care...
That's what the owners count on!
The fact that Americans
will probably remain...
...wilfully ignorant of the
big red, white and blue
their a**holes every day...
Because the owners of this
country know the truth!
It's called the
American dream...
...'cause you have to be
asleep to believe it!
But, say what you want
about American folks! Yeah!
You can say what you
want about Americans,
you can call 'em smart,
dumb, ignorant, innocent,
naive, gullible. easily-led,
whatever you want...
You're gonna have to deal with them, 'cause
you're in the television business now!
You've got the All-Suicide
Channel on cable TV!
You need these people as viewers,
You gotta worry
about your ratings!
You're gonna have to be thinking
about sweeps months!
Most folks know what sweeps months are!
Those are the more important sweeps
ratings, months of the year when they
pull out on the biggest attractions
and their highest stars, trying to
pump out their ratings a little bit,
adjust their advertising needs...
You're gonna have to compete with
the mentality of Network television!
And I think, on an All-Suicide Channel...
During sweeps months? You're gonna have
to go mass suicides!
Big, public events where hundreds of people
kill themselves all at the same time,...
...right on Live TV!
And I've been wresting with the way to do
this! I've been trying to figure this out -
I swear to God! This is the truth! I've been
trying to figure this part of it out...
...for six months now, and I only recently having,
so I'm gonna tell you about it... Now!
We're gonna have to get lots and lots
of people to kill themselves on demand!
How are we gonna do this?
That's the question!
How are gonna get large numbers of people to
commit suicide at a time and place of our choosing?
And I mean large numbers! Because
don't forget! Besides sweeps,
we're gonna have to be thinking
about 24-hour a day programming!
So, to make this work, we need
organization! We need a system!
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