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George Carlin – Back in Town

Posted by: Black Sheep in 2010, George Carlin, Movies

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No other comedian has had the strength to start up with a line such as “why the people who are against abortions are the people who you wouldn’t wanna fuck anyway” showing a great hostility for the conservative narrow minded crowd. “For humans we call it an abortion, but for chickens it’s called an omelet. Are we that much better than chickens? When’s the last time you heard of a chicken coming home and beating the crap out of his hen?” George Carlin points out in a very satirical form, that subliminally gets the message across, “keep the abortions legal and free”

In fact, we live in a world of about 6 billion people. Wars, hunger, diseases, lack of clean water and food are some of the most common problems of the what so called “Third World” countries. In the western “developed” capitalist societies unemployment is rising day after day with millions of people loosing their jobs while homelessness rates are increasing dramatically (Only in the US, it is estimated that homelessness has been increased by 35-40% during the last years while millions of dollars are spent overseas for occupations). Segregation, poverty, social harbor, overcrowding, crime, racism, hate, those are all problems that we witness every day. Under these circumstances, where everything shows that humanity needs a radical change how can people still oppose themselves to abortion? On a planet where humanity suffers and further increase of the population can only expand poverty how can people still support that abortions should not be legal? What does an unexpected pregnancy mean for a poor woman or a rape victim? Is she going to bring in life a “less fortunate” child? What about the thousands of people who are born by accident every year from parents that are unable to support them?

I do not support that abortions could sort out everything, poverty has not its roots only in overpopulation, but allowing children to grow up in an unprivileged society definitely worsens the situation. Of course you may say, “it’s religion”, but why these conservatives do not stop moaning and keep their God home inside the walls of their community, who cannot understand that this world has been progressed since the Middle Ages? So what happens if a wooman does not want to “go to heaven and meet Jesus” because she was incapable to grow up a child? Did Jesus said “everyone is free to follow me or not“? Let’s keep it like that!

Sanctity of life and Capital punishment: How most of the religious “law and order” people can support the death penalty and together worship Jesus who talked about love, peace and forgiveness? Death penalty for the drug dealers who are not afraid to die because they kill each other every day? If the capital punishment is a good form of justice, then why the US has higher crime rates per capita than Europe as a whole or even more than a lot of Third World countries where there is no death penalty? Or is the capital punishment a tool used for intimidation for all those who act against the state? “You wanna stop the drug wars? Forget about going after the dealers. Let’s start executing the white, American bankers who launder the drug money.”

More anti-media statements: The idea of the “Prison States”. Here Carlin despises the way the media system works by criticizing the TV shows and the was they use to stupefy and manipulate the masses. How can we eliminate the four most destructive elements of the society in a way that could help the state financially. A simple idea: evict the residents of Utah, Wyoming, Colorado, and Kansas and transform those states into sponsored, Big Brother-style prison farms for drug addicts, sex criminals, alcoholics and mentally ill people. Allow the prisoners to interact with each other and watch the show, a real crime show.

Has America been transformed into a TV show society? This is what George Carlin points out here. I could not have a very well outlined opinion about America since I have never lived there but from what I see the Western society is affected a lot by the media’s “law and order, buy, enjoy, consume, die” lifestyle, a fake world that promises a lot, but in reality it offers nothing.

The last important statement of Carlin that I would like to discuss is “Do politicians suck? Everybody complains about politicians but why everybody votes for them? Is this the best we can do?” In my opinion the problem starts when the people do not realize that the whole system has nothing more to give.“This is what we have to offer, this is what our system produces, garbage in and garbage out”, therefore it does not matter who is elected as the same people are in charge. As an anarchist friend has mentioned “A good system is a system that works in real”. I believe that a system that uses money is not real. Because money is not real itself. It is a medium used as an alternative way of exchanging goods and of course to help those in favor of authority to increase their power at the expenses of the weaker population. In the western world, money rules, therefore we have a society ruled by “something fake”. The war will end only if all the soldiers of the world would refuse someday to go to war. But since people are obsessed with greed, authority, security, law and order, wars, injustice and bigotry will continue to happen.

“Maybe something else sucks more around here, the public”. As Jacques Fresco from the Zeitgeist movement has said, “we are not born with bigotry, with ignorance, those are all elements that we adopt from the society” which means that it is up to the people to change themselves. It only takes a few minutes to see the real picture of the world.

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