Why do I want to start crying after viewing this?

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George Carlin is a prophet. Not in the religious sense- in now-dead languages, including Biblical languages, "prophet" was a dual translation with "dissident intellectual". Dissidents speak truths aloud before they come to pass.

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Carlin is cool.

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"And when they came for me? There was no one left to speak."

Carlin sees what few of us are willing to see: the United States fizzled out decades ago, replaced with a fake copy that only looks like the old U.S. Welcome to the Union of Corporate Controlled Fascist States, indeed.

Goddamn, do I need a drink now....

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You, me, we're all slaves (with extremely few exceptions). Land of the free? When was the last time you did something that you REALLY wanted to do? How many of you are working for yourself? How many of you are working at the "job of your dreams" doing exactly what you want to do in life? If the internet was a window, I don't think I'd be seeing many hands go up.

I'm sorry people, but working 50+ hours a week at a job you hate just so you can pay all your loans and bills is not freedom. But hey, you've got freedom of choice right! You're totally welcome to quit your job, move into a cardboard box, and eat out of dumpsters. If that's not freedom then what is!!! God bless America.

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We now live in a world where only comedians can actually tell you the truth. Everyone else is too afraid because if you weren't laughing when they told you about it.. if there was no buffer of comedy..... you'd be tearing this fucking place apart.

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We're doing fine in this country,if you don't believe me listen to the Fox News bunch,esp. the Wall street bunch,they wouldn'd lie ,they're'' fair and balanced'' they've their fingers on the pulse of this nation !

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its ok... dont cry this should cheer u up... I uploaded all the movies that I downloaded from torrent to my video blog! linked text ENJOY!

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i'm 63 years old. it was worse when i was 23 then it is now. people were dead asleep. at least now george carlin can say what he says and not be put in jail like lenny bruce.

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Were you watching what George was saying? Spend some
time learning something real instead?

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that is so true, a nation of zombies, controlled by rich people, and the ones they can't control they try to kill off.

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Yes. Bill Hicks was another "prophet." I love Carlin and Hicks and get depressed every time I hear them. Boy, what a scam it all is. I suggest listening to Jello Biafra's spoken word CDs.

"Where did all the money go." JB

I pose this question. How does one go on knowing it's all a lie? Jello also asks in reference to all the poor and disenfranchised: "What are we supposed to do? Die?"

I wonder some times. It all makes me very depressed.

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The joke of the century after 9/11 was listening to Bush tell us to get out and shop. We are, so far, just economic slaves. We permit them to hold us by the balls to a large extent.

http://www.revbilly.com/

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This kind of thing is why I left the field of Adult Education. In the USA adult education serves to make more of these subservient workers and citizens. Where is the Freirian popular education? I taught ESL (English as a Second Language), and still do a little on the side, but I couldn't find any popular education (consciousness raising, etc.) ESL in the USA. If there is any, it's few and far between. And popular education started first with literacy in Brazil, but has been used in other contexts too, and ESL is a close kin to literacy. So we teach ESL in a manner that gives us obedient immigrants and foreign students. That's how adult education is here in the USA.

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Mr. Carlin is correct in much of his assessment of this country, however, he neglected to say the one thing that no one wants to hear: This country deserves EVERYTHING that happens to it. By sitting on our collective asses, while laughing and applauding people like George, we are ultimately ALL responsible for the sad and sorry mess that this country and, in turn, the world is in. It is so easy to lay blame on the Bushies and the corporations and the war-mongers for screwing things up, but hey, who let them get away with it and still do? You and me and EVERYONE else. Therefore, we are ALL deserving of whatever fate befalls us. How to change it? Stop funding the bastards! After all, they can't do it if they can't afford it. Quit buying in to the lie, whether through your corporate consumerism or your hard earned tax dollars. Don't give them the money they need to continue this rampant destruction of basic morals and ideals that everyone WANTS to believe in. Stop giving what little wealth you have left to those who have so much, it's... it's... (need to coin a new term or word or phrase). I'll tell you what it is: it's WHAT YOU DESERVE!

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Universities and Colleges are subservient to corporations.
As a result education has become a joke.

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I agree with everything he is saying, but maybe we should remember that Carlin also did an entire act on how funny rape is. To me that discounts him immediately. I would think that this site would frown on posting anything from a man that jokes about rape no matter how much we might agree with his politics.

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George Carlin has always spoken the truth, whether we liked it or not. But as long as people fear or are made to be fearful of their own gut instincts about life and what they hear, are we responsible for what's going on? We don't know what to think until a news station or anchor, or hollywood star tells us.

It takes personal responsibility and yes some sacrifice. But we all wait for the other guy to start first. We are made fools of over the war, food that’s not fit to eat , marches for diseases that pharmas already know how to cure.... but remember this mantra... "It is more profitable to look for a cure - than to find one"
So add that to the downward spiral we are taking.

I listened to a CD from John Taylor Gatto he made in 2000 about the real reason behind public education. How it started in Germany, and the goal was to give people just enough education/propaganda to keep them in the mines, and all the lowly jobs that the rich wouldn’t be caught dead doing. Well they’re still spitting on us. But now we know... so what’s the excuse? Well it isn’t intellectual, it’s emotional, fear based, read Mien Kampf, it’s like a right wing “how to” book. Hitler talked about how to get large numbers of people believing anything! That the “bigger the lie, the more will believe it”. And as soon as we the people catch on... you notice how the rhetoric gets louder! Danger, danger Will Robinson!!!! It works every time. So a little personal responsibility goes a long way. Also a some spiritual prayer, No not organized religion, spirituality between you and whatever and whomever you believe in. Not from anyone on a stage or an alter.

John Taylor Gatto site.
http://www.johntaylorgatto.com

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That's what our "owners" will probably want next?

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The thing the Neo-Can't are unable to grasp, because a joke has to have truth in it to be funny. Hence, the Mayfly existence of FBC's HALF HOUR COMEDY HOUR.

In the compost heap.

George Carlin, Bill Maher, Jon Stewart, Stephen Colbert and a tiny handful of others have been rolled into the King's palace and let loose. The dull witted monarch had no clue what he had released.

Uncle George instills doubt. A fine gift for dodgy days ahead.

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George Carlin tells it like it is. We may not want to hear it, but the truth hurts. Humans have an incredible capacity for self-delusion and a strong ability to ignore the obvious.

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It's always been that way...unless we wake up and do something about it. How long will it be until the Second Civil War?

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And why do you think the mainstream media has despised Carlin
since at least the mid-1960's? Because he has been speaking truth to power. Maybe we had better stop shutting up, giving in and sitting down like good obedient dogs.

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if slaves are done wheres the master......bater.....if masters are done wheres the slave????

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Mr. Carlin nails it, nails it, nails it. The Owners have pushed out the Framers of our country. They want stupid, obedient masses, obedient workers, no dissent, less pay, fewer benefits.

"It's a big Club, and you and I ain't in it!" so true.

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What genius. What balls.

Enjoy him while they let him live.... enjoy all of us while they let us live.

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If you want to scare the shit out of the corporations do not send in your payments. Let everything slide. Make them know the fear of loss. Get that clunker repaired. Do not buy new. Buy only used clothes and other stuff. Make the thrift store the new sears. Tell your damn kids NO!!! They will live. Lets hurt them where they live. The coffers of the rich are too bloated anyway. Of course you will always have people who judge others by what they buy and who gives a damn about them. Let's relearn how to live on less. Use cash a lot, it really makes you think if you do. 0nly thing we have to buy new is food. So what if your credit cards rates raise ,you are never going to pay them off anyway.Lets start sticking it to the man as often and as deep as possible. Do not go off the deep end but hang in there on the edge.

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George Carlin is one of my favorite comedians. He tells it like it is. Corporations keep the standards low on education because stupid, ignorant, uneducated people are easier to control and watch. He should re-iterate his comments about corporations owning America; because they not only own America they own the world (that includes Banks of government stature).

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Carlin is that special type of comic whose comedy teeters on the edge of despair, almost to the point of a rant, then pulls you back in for a laugh before pushing the envelope again. Dave Chappelle can do it to, although in a different way.

You might wonder how he manages to reach people when he is so anti-establishment. Well I suppose seen one way he is a commodity that fills a niche market (albeit a growing one). It's all about selling to a demographic. True or not, it doesn't take away from the effectiveness of what he says. They likely see it as marketing another controversial comic and controversy has always played well in comedy and has been highly marketable.

Carlin effortlessly cuts through the realities of show business with his refusal to be bullshitted and straight-up fuck you attitude. We need more people in show business like him.

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I was impressed with this video and can't disagree with what he says. I do think there is too little effort in Education to actually teach children to be critical thinkers...seems to be far more important to teach them to be good little followers. Many educators are frightened by children whose responses may deviate from the scripted correct answer.

There might be an inclination to feel rather hopeless and helpless after viewing this video. I hope Carlin's attempt was to stir people up and get them to think for themselves. I think I'll start watching Carlin again...

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God Bless George for tellin it like it is..!

It's getting worse everyday..

We don't have any hope for change real change with any of these Bilderberger pre-selected Candidates from Hillary or Edwards to the Republican Taliban Mafia..

It's Dennis Kucinich or Ron Paul who are in any way for We the People...


I'm with Kucinich and the American people..

Win lose or draw...!


We must Nationalize The American Oil Industry and all Energy..for a start...


TJ..

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But he'd BETTER get a laugh...

Ian

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you die tomorrow your life is a sucess. Thank You. You have made my day complete.

Incidentally, a note to my fellow citizens, what are we going to do about this? George is right. I'd elect him for president if it were possible.
WE MUST DO SOMETHING.

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when Whoopi Goldberg had this kind of talent? Where is she, now that this country needs more people like George Carlin to wake everyone up from this apathy??
People with access to the soapbox owe it to their fellow citizens to do precisely what Carlin is doing - tell it like is.
And by all means, a salute to Humbolt County for showing the rest of the nation what can happen when people say, enough is enough!

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Dennis Kucinich is the only candidate who doesn't fall into this category of which Carlins speaks. He truly is for the people. If Carlin wants to make a difference, he should campaign for Dennis. I am doing volunteer work for his campaign. Get involved in the fight for truth and make a difference.

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In the middle ages, only the court fool dared speak truth to power. Anyone else who tried was killed. In that sense, George Carlin is a fool. I count Bill Maher John Stewart and Steven Colbert as fools too. Only trouble with our modern fools is that those in power aren't listening. Remember when that fool Colbert was invited to the palace to speak to the royal court? They ran him out of town and he wont be invited back. Neither will any of the other fools.

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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall — think of it, always."
Non-cooperation and peaceful resistance were Gandhi's "weapons" in the fight against injustice.

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http://zeitgeistmovie.com/

How appropriate (I thought) to receive this information on the 6th anniversary of 9/11.

THE WTC TRAGEDY WAS STAGED! IT WAS ALL PART OF BUSH'S GRAND MASTER SCHEME - ALL WORKING TOWARD WORLD GOVERNMENT! I DARE YOU TO WATCH IT!

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Just saw him on You Tube. He is BRILLIANT!

Another prophet for sure!

Maybe there IS a God, after all.

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