The late, great George Carlin on the real owners of the country. From Down With Tyranny (profanity warning):
"It's a Big Club and You Ain't In It"
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that's some heavy sh*t AND so very real and true...
"On the sides of tanker trucks I've seen "Flammable", "Inflammable", and "Non-inflammable". Why the hell do we need three terms for that? Either it 'flams' or it doesn't."
George Carlin
Carlin was a genius and with many geniuses, sometimes, he was little out there. Some of his routines are absolutely HILARIOUS. If you ever saw his routine, "My Shit is stuff and your stuff is shit", you probably fell on the floor like I did and almost had a aneurism. I do, honestly, think I suffered an unbilical hernia from that routine.
George… on politics: I had a left-wing, humanitarian, secular humanist, liberal inclination on the one hand, which implied positions on myriad issues. On the other I had prejudices and angers and hatreds towards various classes of people. None of which included skin color or ethnicity or religion. Well—religion, yes. I used to get angry at blue-collar right-wingers but that passed because I saw that in the end they were just a different sort of victim.
…on values: The worst thing about groups are their values. Traditional values, American values, family values, shared values, OUR values. Just code for white middle-class prejudices and discrimination, justification for greed and hatred. I believe in giving everyone, as I encounter them, one at a time the full value of their dignity and their honor in the world. Whether I’m seen as a celebrity on an elevator or I’m just George the stranger, I open myself to them and I take them in and I give them everything I would want myself in terms of treatment, feeling and consideration. I call that a value.
"nobody seems to notice, and nobody seems to care"
"it's called the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it"
Carlin always interjected politics into his routines.
That cut of his routine there sums up 90% of what is wrong with this country. In 3 minutes he poignantly clarifies nearly everything you need to know about what is going on, and why everything we do doesn't seem to work.
That other 10%? It is all the things the owners of this country want you to think is wrong. i.e. crime, drug abuse, terrorists
I know that little rant he is on doesn't seem funny. But, it is funnier than having to constantly say to everyone "WAKE THE FUCK UP!"
That should be required listening!
Carlin says what I think, what I feel. I've seen this clip several times and it always resonates with me.
On the other hand, I like Carlin because he's the only comedian I ever saw who could make my dad fall down laughing. I think it was his jumbo-shrimp, military-intelligence routine.. . .
I have watched this a half dozen times. I am amazed at how well he 'got it', and I think he is absolutely right. This opened up my eyes.
I bought his last book, which was so politically incorrect that he even made fun of "retarded persons". It was rather caustic, but had moments of the Carlin brilliance. I think he became more bitter about people and government as he got older, and he couldn't hide it.
Yes, but it used to be funny. This one comes across as pedantic, and not terribly humorous.
Probably because the truth hurts.
Sigh.
Carlin's comedy always was based on political commentary. If you didn't see the commentary, you weren't paying attention. I don't know about his earlier stuff but "Class Clown" (1972) had commentary on Muhammad Ali, and of course the Seven words you can't say on television as did everything after that.
"Token" membership in the Club is even worse, and Republicans think that they all have one stashed somewhere in a drawer to be redeemed at some later date!
"Sorry, Charlie!" - wrong can of Tuna...
While I don't disagree with what he said here, when did he stop being a stand-up comic and focus only on political commentary?
If I were a ticket-buying audience member expecting something like his routines on football vs. baseball, seven words, the hippy dippy weatherman, etc., I would have been disappointed.
He was certainly the "intelligent" comic, but sometimes you just need to laugh.