its called the American Dream

GEORGE CARLIN'S ANALYSIS OF EDUCATION IN THE USA

transcript from his 2006 HBO concert
warning - COARSE LANGUAGE IS USED - warning

There is a reason education sucks,
its the same reason it will never ever, ever be fixed.
Its never gonna get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what ya got!

Because the Owners of this country don't want that.
I'm talking about the real owners now,
The big, the wealthy, the big, wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians, they're their an irrelevant... 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 own all the big media companies, so they control just about all the news and information you get to hear.
They gotcha 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, 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 right.

You know something?
They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table to figure out how badly they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard thirty fuckin' years ago. They don't want that.

Ya' 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 shitier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension that disappears the moment you go to collect it.
And now they're coming for your social security money. They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back, so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And ya know something, they'll get it.
They'll get it all from you, sooner or later.
'Cause they own this fuckin' place.

Its a big club, and you ain't in it!
You and I are not in the big club.
And by the way, its the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long, when they tell yo what to believe.
All day long beating ya' over the head in their media, telling you what to believe, what to think, and what to buy.

The table is tilted, folks.
The game is rigged.
And nobody seems to notice.
Nobody seems to care.
Good, honest, hard working people, white collar, blue collar. It doesn't matter what color 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 fuck about them!

They don't give a fuck about you!
They don't give a fuck about you, they don't care about you!
At all! At all! At all!
Ya know, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the Owners count on, the fact Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, whir and blue dick that is being jammed up their assholes everyday.

Because the Owners of this country know the truth:
its called the American Dream, 'cause ya' have to be asleep to believe it.

- George Denis Patrick Carlin, 2006

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