This is about the best $20 I've ever spent on a book.
I'm only on page 104, yet I found myself laughing out loud dozens of times. While in a bookstore yesterday, I happened to pick up a copy of George Carlin's 890 page tome, 3XCarlin: An Orgy of George (2006). He had a precise grasp on what ails America, exemplified by the following brilliant routine from his 2005 special, "Life Is Worth Losing." Many conservatives consider this iconoclastic feedback to be unpatriotic.Īs George Carlin fans all know, the Grammy award-winning comedian died in 2008, shortly after completing his 2008 HBO special, "It's Bad For Ya." I've always enjoyed George Carlin's work, which is intensely funny, yet equally serious. To the extent that these funny social critics portray themselves as jesters, they will have more access to the mass media, enabling them more effectively put their verbal swords in and out of those who own and run this country. As comedians, they can hone their messages into comical memes that their audience members will pass around in viral fashion long after the original message was delivered. The types of patriotic people we need to deliver this blitzkrieg criticism also need to be excellent entertainers in order to maintain the attention of large numbers of Americans. In fact, this type of person, of whom we actually need many, feeds on the criticism aimed at them by the powers-that-be and even gets even better under attack he/she feels compelled to speak truth to power because it is the right thing to do, it's in the blood and it's the patriotic thing.
They need someone who is old enough and thick-skinned enough that he/she doesn’t give a shit about being criticized for being unpatriotic. They need much more than "news" reporters who don't have the tools, courage or motivation to challenge all the BS. They need the kinds of people who can effectively challenge these messages and messengers-someone who not only can challenge this propaganda but can do it with sharp fast pinpricks that deflate this bloviation on the spot. Misinformation pours into the living rooms and cars of Americans every day, where it too often takes root, perhaps because it is uttered by people wearing fancy suits and flag pins.Īmericans need an antidote to this unending poison. I hate to be writing these words, but I've lost a lot of faith in the United States in the past ten years. Much of it substantially untrue and quite a bit of it is absolute bullshit. Those of us who have resisted drinking much of this country’s spiked elixir of Judeo-Christian-consumerist-warmongering-bigotry know that most of what we hear our authority figures uttering, even those authority figures who we want to believe to be on our side, is flawed. They will continue invading our houses and and minds thanks to their many stenographers in the commercial media. They will continue to feed us unending misinformation in order to justify their urges to wage unnecessary wars to help them retain their power. If it is not being used, then politicians and their rich and powerful keepers will continue to utter long and loud streams of nonsense to financially screw the ordinary working people of America in dozens of ways. The First Amendment isn’t worth a damn unless it is actually being used.
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