"It's called the American dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it."

[asdjrocky]

-George Carlin

edited to add whole video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=acLW1vFO-2Q

[Binka]

1. Eyes Wide Shut

Hi buddy!:loveya:

[asdjrocky]

3. Hi Binka!

We need ol' George more than ever now.

[earth mom]

23. Hmm, sounds like you've changed your tune and stopped buying into the hype/hope. nt

[laughingliberal]

2. Yep. nt

[Starry Messenger]

4. That's for damn sure.

[asdjrocky]

6. This is a bad time to lose the good ones...

Zinn, Carlin... the list goes on.

[Starry Messenger]

10. Also true.

:( That's why we all need each other.

[Cleita]

5. Yep.

It's still better to live here than in places like let's say Somalia or Haiti, but we are heading in that direction if those Freeper, Tea Bag types don't wake up and smell the propaganda they are fed every day.

[Greyhound]

9. What does it say when we have to bring up places like Somalia in comparison so the U.S.

is 'better'?

This mass-psychosis that pervades our society, the denial of what is before us, the constant and radical degradation of our lifestyles, principles, and liberty, is why the world looks at the American People and has to ask "WTF"?

Every day right here, we are told that this is "the way it is" and that "it is going to get worse" and we are supposed to shut up and accept their edicts. "Our" President and "our" Representatives openly declare that we are irrelevant, and we just accept it as we go through the motions of playing our part in our own dissolution.

[ChiciB1]

39. Still Drinking I See.... n/t

[IndianaGreen]

7. A kick for the prophet George Carlin!

:kick:

He was right about the two major parties!

[asdjrocky]

8. "They don't care about you at all, at all, at all!"

-George Carlin

[Electric Monk]

11. Sure, but do you have stuff?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvgN5gCuLac

[asdjrocky]

13. His stuff bit is one of the best bits in history.

His own take on run away capitalism.

[Greyhound]

12. LOL! I was just going to link the video and you already did it.

Got your comment as well and subscribed to your channel (Don't worry, mine is has little content, too).

GMTAAFSD ("Great minds think alike, and fools seldom differ")
:rofl:

[asdjrocky]

14. LOL, took me a few to find it.

Someone posted this on facebook and it gave me the idea.

[Greyhound]

15. A shame so many don't want to hear the truth.

:kick:

[Kurovski]

16. Always a K&R for Carlin. (nt)

[TBF]

17. American nightmare is more like it... nt

[asdjrocky]

18. Too true. Nt

[penndragon69]

19. Long live George Carlin !!

It's too bad he's gone.

[zenprole]

20. 3 x Carlin

A great quote from one of the greats.

Heads Up Dept: I found a hardcover 3x Carlin: An Orgy of George (his 3 books, plus some bonus stuff) at a B&N in Washington state - $12.98 in the discount section. A great find.

Priceless Memory Dept: I saw him at a small venue in '05 and went to the stage door to drop some 'zines for him...and he was standing just inside...and came out for a moment to say hello. He'd just been flamethrowing on stage for over an hour, but was really cool and appreciative.

His memoir "Last Words" (with Tony Hendra) is excellent.

[90-percent]

21. what is really going on

as we frogs swim around in water that is slowly brought to a boil is capsuled fantastically by this Carlin vid. This bit has become more and more true as time passes. It's like our evil corporate overlords are following George's script. It's George's "How to Serve Man" moment.

I post this link in my posts every couple of weeks. This message has to get out there.

-90% jimmy

[donheld]

22. 100% right

[BeHereNow]

24. Brilliant. Seen "Network" lately?

TMC ran it the other night- there are some rather brilliant and prophetic moments
in that film too...

We are so screwn.
And to think, how many people just accept it, even vote for it!
BHN

[BeHereNow]

25. K&R n/t

bhn

[proteus_lives]

26. Said the millionaire comedian.

[asdjrocky]

30. Total BS.

The truth is the truth no matter it's source.

[proteus_lives]

33. Yeah!

"Hey folks I achieved my own but you shouldn't even try!"

[asdjrocky]

34. Again, the truth is the truth.

If you watch the video, he's talking about the last 30 years.

George did achieve the American Dream, in many ways, but it's there no more.

[proteus_lives]

35. "but it's there no more."

Says who?

You? Carlin?

Forgive me if I'm not impressed but that sounds like a cop-out.

I did watch the video, Carlin is a funny guy. Always was but I'm not much for all the chicken-shit talk about giving up.

[asdjrocky]

36. Okay Rambo.

You keep fighting the good fight for a TV in every room.

Others are moving on from all this jingoistic bs.

[proteus_lives]

37. Explain something to me.

What is "jingoistic" about not giving up?

Give me your reasons for throwing in the towel.

Also, why would I want a TV in every room?

[socialist_n_TN]

43. So you don't see the difference between

a working class guy who has talent and luck and makes it in ENTERTAINMENT and a capitalist spawn who uses Diddy's money to educate himself in how to screw said working class and starts "at the bottom" of Diddy's company (or Diddy's FRIEND'S company, same difference) at 50k per year? IOW, in your mind there's no difference between a guy who actually DID make it from nothing to something AND STAYS TRUE TO HIS ROOTS and a guy who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and "makes it". Do I have your reasoning correct?

[proteus_lives]

47. No, you don't.

I see a working class guy who made it and is telling an audience of other working class people that they shouldn't even try. I have a problem with that because it's bull-shit.

[Uncle Joe]

50. I don't see Carlin as telling the people to quit, he was trying to piss them off enough

to change the corrupted system; even though he benefited from it.

[AllTooEasy]

27. Then I must be asleep reading this...

3 homes, 6 figure salary, engineering degree that will keep me employed for life, beautiful loving wife, travels all over the world...

...not bad for a Black guy who needed Gov't food stamps (Socialism, thank you) to eat as a kid, and Pell Grants (socialism, thank you) to get through college.

Sorry folks, but I don't hate America...I hate Republicans and what they do to and in the name of America.

In addition, I show my appreciation for America by paying my taxes AND NOT FUCKING BITCHING ABOUT IT like some people we know.

[asdjrocky]

29. Wow, you're rich and you're a saint.

Congratulations.

[LibDemAlways]

38. Don't be so sure that your engineering degree is a ticket to

lifelong employment. There are plenty of unemployed engineers out there, and it could happen to you, just as it did to my husband and a couple of hundred of his colleagues when his company pulled the plug on an entire division.

[BEZERKO]

28. Well said,

fuckin' a Bubba!

[G_j]

31. brilliant

as always

[Triana]

32. Probably the most truth we'll ever see this decade. n/t

[Historic NY]

40. The dumbing down of America began 30 yrs ago........

The dumbing down of America began 30 yrs ago...its certainly did all with that rhetoric of a "shining city on the hill"......people bought into Ronnies script while he was trickling down on them.

[LibDemAlways]

41. They still make pilgrimages to the Reagan Library (near

my house) to worship at the altar of 80's greed and materialism - old guys in polyester sans-a-belt pants and their wives with helmet hair who never seem to wonder why they are living on a small pension in a mobile home park while the big shots live in splendor. They've been trickled on till they're soaking wet and it never occurs to them to ask why.

[asdjrocky]

42. Well put.

I know exactly the people you're talking about. I'm 50 and the political split came between my father and I when he became a 'reagan democrat'.

[saracat]

44. George was a family friend and I actually had the privilege of "drinking"

with him many times at a bar my family members frequented. He was a close friend of my uncle. He always called me "the kid from NY"( I was in my 20's) and said I was smarter than the old guys and suits. I miss George. I only saw him rarely after I "grew up" and moved away. George truly was a hero and right about most things.

[asdjrocky]

45. What a cool story.

Thanks so much for adding a personal note to this saracat! Lucky girl.

[ChiciB1]

46. Hi Sara, Hi Rocky... Good To See We're STILL On The Same Page!

Even though I've taken a break for a while now. Got a bit of the bug again, or maybe just my depression has lifted for now!

Anyway, thanks for the post and I ALWAYS try to read what you have to say or a thread you may have started!! And yes, I myself can't hold a light to all that you and many of our like minded friends continually add to the political and/or LIFE altering discussions!

I could make excuses for not doing enough, but it's really not good enough. However, I will say that my husband who isn't into politics like I am actually has a problem with me blogging and spending time on what he calls my addiction. I DO stand my ground a lot, but there are times that avoiding an argument wins out. He's a little older than me and never TRULY embraced "women's Lib" way back when! Sooooooo, there ARE times that it gets dicey!!

Still, the political realm is in my blood! And I LOVE George even if he left us too soon!

:hug:

[asdjrocky]

48. Always good to see you check in ChickB1!

Even if it is for only a stolen moment or two, lol. :hi:

[Odin2005]

52. That's awesome!

Carlin was one guy I would have loved to have a bear with!

[BeHereNow]

53. Oh, hey now! Love your blog!!!

:hi: :thumbsup: :hug:
BHN

[Odin2005]

54. Why thank you!

:hi:

[upi402]

49. "There is no freedom of choice"

I never get tired of this.
"They don't want a well educated population capable of critical thinking... They want people just smart enough to run their machines..."

The big club we don't have a chance of getting into beats me over the head and I wont STFU! Never! Not even for the former Democratic Party.

[BeHereNow]

51. Kicking for "MUST SEE" DU audience-

WATCH IT!
He NAILS it.
BHN

[G_j]

55. kick