Postby Slartibartfast » August 8th, 2014, 12:13 pm
A Monologue Originally performed by the late George Carlin.
Edited slightly to removed references he made specifically to the United States and replaced with the Trini equivalent in italics
"Not too bright, folks. Not too f@(#!ng bright. But if you talk to one of them about this, if you isolate one of them, you sit them down rationally, you talk to them about the low IQ's and the dumb behavior and the bad decisions; right away they start talking about education. That's the big answer to everything: Education.
They say, 'We need more money for education. We need more books, more teachers, more classrooms, more schools. We need more testing for the kids!'
You say to 'em, 'Well, you know, we've tried all that and the kids still can't pass the tests'. They say, 'Aw, don't you worry about that, we're gonna lower the passing grades!'
And that's what they do in a lot of these schools now, they lower the passing grades so more kids can pass. More kids pass, the school looks good, everybody's happy; the IQ of the country slips another two or three points and pretty soon, all you'll need to get into college is a f@(#!ng pencil! 'Gotta pencil? Get the f@(# in there, it's physics!'
Politicians know that word; they use it on you. Politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the flag, the Bible and children. 'No Child Left Behind! No Child Left Behind!' 'Oh really, well it wasn't long ago you were talking about giving kids a Head Start! Head Start, Left Behind, someone's losing f@(#!ng ground here!' But there's a reason. There's a reason. There's a reason for this. There's a reason education sucks and it's the same reason it will never, ever, ever be fixed. It's never going to get any better, don't look for it, be happy with what you got. Because the owners of this country don't want that.
I'm talking about the real owners now. The big, wealthy...The real owners, the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're an irrelevancy. 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 MPs and Ministers. They've got the judges in their back pockets, and they own the media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They've got you by the balls! They spend billions of dollars every year financing political parties. Well, we know what they want; they want more for themselves and less for everybody else.
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 against their interests. That's right! You know something? They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting f@(#ed by a system that threw them overboard 30 f@(#!ng years ago. They don't want that! You know what they want? They want Obedient Workers – Obedient Workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it....
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head with all day long and they tell you what to believe...All day long, beating you over the head in the media, what to believe, what to think and what to buy...The table is tilted, folks! The game is rigged! And nobody seems to notice, and nobody seems to care! Good honest, hard-working people! White collar, blue collar... 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 anti-snatches who don't give a f@(# about them! They don't give a f@(# about you! They don't give a f@(# about you! They don't care about you! At all! At all! At all! Yeah! You know? And nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans probably will remain willfully ignorant of the big red white and black d!ck that's being jammed up their muffler bearings every day! Because the owners of this country know the truth..."
