The American Dream - it's a big club and u ain't in it!

[moedookie]

Run time: 03:15 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BN2j_Ic3H94   Posted on YouTube: August 03, 2010 By YouTube Member: CrazyLaughAction Views on YouTube: 51   Posted on DU: August 03, 2010 By DU Member: moedookie Views on DU: 1212

 

[msongs]

1. government of the corporation, for the corporation, and by the corporation nt

[MrSlayer]

2. This is the absolute truth.

All this shit we do here is just sideshow. Politics is the WWF, mostly faked, definitely rigged, always bullshit.

[DeSwiss]

3. K&R

Liberty nonetheless abounds in a totalitarian democracy. Open elections verify majority rule. The slaves are free to elect their masters, and that is enough to satisfy most folks in the land of the free. That, along with 100-plus cable channels to keep us entertained inside the cage. We know we are powerless, but better the devil you know than evil socialism, where you are not allowed to take out a second mortgage on your cage.

So here it is, top of the ninth round, and Gaia is on the ropes with cuts over both eyes, and no referee on the mat. Homo sapiens are moving in for the killer punch. It's been an ugly fight. But the truth is that there will be no winner. Certainly not man, considering that his triumph results in the specter of human self-extinction, dieback or die-off, or at least by massive die-back."

Call me a grim old fatalist, but I just do not see the human race turning things around. Not because humans are inherently evil (although pimping Gaia to death comes close), but because we are what we are. In any case, we are not going to stop eating, shitting, burning up stuff to stay warm, or following the genetic imperative to breed. How can we solve the problem when we are the problem, other than by self-extinction?

~ http://www.joebageant.com/">Joe Bageant

[orbitalman]

4. This would be super-hilarious....

if it weren't so true as we come closer and closer to YOU and me getting the American Flag rammed up our ass. :mad:

Edit: spelling

[earcandle]

5. Oh Yes! That is what I am talking about! Thanks for posting, and thank you George!

[Grassy Knoll]

6. Oil business is not just in bed with the government.....

It is the government.
Its fucking sad that what he spoke about years ago
is true today.

[Rmbn]

7. glad this was posted

One of my fav vids from Carlin. He was in his later years, gave less of a shit than usual and told the truth as he saw it. The battle of the people was fought in the 60's and we lost. MLK, JFK and RFK among lesser known others were our champions and were killed. We are fighting a losing battle because we are our own worst enemy. We expect politicians to fix the problems once we elect them, instead of making a real effort.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

8. I miss him. n/t

[snot]

9. When did he do this?

[Kurovski]

12. I think 2006, or so.

[OKDem08]

10. the first time I saw this I must admit

I thought Carlin had become just another cynical old man. Now I realize that he was 100% accurate.

[Kurovski]

11. This is why part of me knows Obama is a lucky find,

It's why Dean was character assassinated, why Kucinich gets shunted to the rear.

I just might get a crumb, maybe some civil rights some point soon. I don't know if Mccain would have gotten it any closer to the goal, so that it will happen before I die.

Carlin never voted. But he was legally married and wealthy.

[civilisation]

13. This was Carlin's magnum opus!

A truly great stand-up performance hilariously funny, and peppered throughout with biting social commentary. This passage is the most lucid and accurate appraisal of the situation I have seen so widely presented. "Nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care." Yup, ppl are "too busy" with all these other things to see that the problems are systemic, arising from the vary foundation of the monetary system (debt based money), and maintained by the political and economic control system that is simply built on top of the pyramid money system that funnels wealth from the many to the few. How do you fight banksters that have an endless money (power) supply? They simply create money to lend, and then collect the interest compounded endlessly,. even our governments "borrow" money from private bankers at interest, and then long after those politicos are gone, (retired, tropical island) the interest is left compounding., and the people are made to pay, over and over again. State backed capitalism with the military industrial Congressional complex at its core is the farthest thing from freedom ever devised. The freedom you hear about is freedom of CAPITAL and not freedom of people. Corporate farms now claim all the good growing land,. ppl are enslaved to the money system to even eat, or just to live on land we no longer can claim as the corporations have it all. The monetary system must first change and the political system as well. Until these are radically rethought 1% will rule a 99% base of debt slaves.