>On Aug 24, 4:18 am, Hardpan yahoo.com> wrote:

>> On Sat, 23 Aug 2008 12:10:45 -0700 (PDT), Shrikeb...@gmail.com wrote:

>>>On Aug 21, 10:49 pm, Hardpan yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>> On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 10:52:35 -0700 (PDT), Shrikeb...@gmail.com wrote:

>>>>>On Aug 20, 12:49 am, Hardpan yahoo.com> wrote:

>>>>>>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJnaxsLBl94

>>

>>>>>When a wealthy famous celebrity pretends he's not a part
>>>>>of "the club," (i.e. the owners of America), all you can do
>>>>>is laugh.  It's an ironic version of the liar's paradox.  Those
>>>>>rich wealthy bastards don't care about you, says the rich
>>>>>wealth bastard.  Yeah, and he does.

>>

>>>> Did he inherit his wealth like most of the rich have done or did he
>>>> make it on his own?

>>

>>>What difference would it make?  Many of the wealthy
>>>bastards who are selected to be the choices for the
>>>electorate, about whom he was talking when he
>>>claimed "they don't care about you," made their own
>>>money as well.

>>
>> Following politics is a hobby of mine, not a passion, for I know that
>> in America at least its all about profit and greed.
>>
>> For many its almost like professional sports with two teams playing
>> against each other in a game of war, when in fact the two teams are in
>> bed with each other.
>>
>> Most people just don't understand that and many other truths and
>> George Carlin shoved it down their throats in a way that was
>> palatable, not offensive, to them.
>>

>>>> I don't see Carlin as being part of any club. He wasn't the type.

>>

>>>I don't see it as a literal club, anyway.  I see it as a
>>>projection.

>>

>>>Anyway, he was talking about the "owners."  As a rich
>>>wealthy player in the Entertainment Industry, which has
>>>the greatest interest in dumbing down the public, since
>>>a more critical public might require entertainment that
>>>requires more thought to produce, he is one of the owners.

>>
>> Not if he wasn't a big-time player in the stock market or become a
>> political activist or "leader" , since these "things"
>> that look human, but act like our masters that we elect every few
>> years, are not real leaders any longer. They are power-mad control
>> freaks with a mind to do whatever they wish, now that 9/11 occured.
>>
>> No, they are nothing but cowardly sheepherders, watching their stock
>> grow fat and dumb and getting ready for the slaughter, in a large part
>> by passing unconstitutional laws and having the paid-for-whores in the
>> supreme court rule them as such.
>>
>> If we had any sense we would revolt and start from scratch, but that
>> entails a certain danger to liberty as well, considering the education
>> level of the average American stooge, who think they are "free".

>
>"It's a big fucking club and you ain't in it... the table is tilted
>folks,"
>Not with the power of the medium by which you are reading this right
>now.
>
>"they don't care about you at all, at all, at all"
>Right, you have to actually "give a f***" yourself and work toward
>your own goals and aspirations to actually get what YOU want (which no
>one- politcal or coporate- can dictate to you unless you let them).

>"Willful ignorance"
>Yes there's a lot out there and I see it everyday and I know many
>people who reject their own potential willful ignorance by surrounding
>themselves with intelligent, knowledgeable, people and finding out the
>answers to the questions by willfully seeking those answers.
>
>Just because this comedian is preaching his own concept of the world
>doesn't mean you and your friends (collectively, ugh) have to buy into
>it. Think for yourself or die in his version, that's your choice.