Sadly, the average person is so used to being bent over the log that they don't seem to mind it anymore. As long as they have their ESPN and Kardashians and Big Macs, then the estate sale can continue in the background while the money gets siphoned off into offshore bank accounts...
Frogs In Boiling Water
Just to put this into perspective, this Carlin special "Life is worth losing" came out in 2005, almost ten years ago (he has been dead since 2008). Since he went on this rant a decade ago, the National debt has doubled, household income has fallen to 20 year lows, overall employment is at 15 years lows, the U.S. is still in Iraq and Afghanistan, and fuck all has "changed"...
The American Nightmare in a Nutshell
"There's a reason that education sucks and will never, ever get better. Because the real owners of this country, don't want better education. I mean the real owners, the ones who own everything...Forget the politicians - they are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't, you have no choice. You have owners who own you. They own the land, they own the government, they own the judges, they own the media...They want more for themselves and less for everyone else. But what they DON'T want is 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. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting FUCKED by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin' 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, and just dumb enough to passably 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. And now they want your Social Security money so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And they will get it sooner or later...It's a big club, but you ain't in it. It's the same club they use to beat you over the head with in the media - telling you what to believe and what to buy all the time. The game is rigged, but nobody seems to notice and nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about them. That's what the owners count on - that the average American will remain willfully ignorant of the big red white and blue dick that's being jammed up their asses everyday..."
