I came across this George Carlin quote across this quote on the internet this evening. Unlike many George Carlin quotes, he appears to have actually said this.
At any rate, I'll just leave it here:
"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've got...
because the owners of this country don’t want that. I'm talking about
the real owners now... the real owners. The big wealthy business
interests that control things and make all the important decisions.
Forget the politicians. 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 Senate, the Congress, the
state houses, the city halls. They got the judges in their back pockets
and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about
all of the news and information you get to hear. They got you by the
balls.
They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying. Lobbying to
get what they want. 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. They
don’t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table
and think about 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 passively accept all these increasingly shittier
jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the
end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go
to collect it. And now they’re coming for your Social Security money.
They want your fuckin' retirement money. They want it back so they can
give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.
And you know
something? They’ll get it. They’ll get it all from you sooner or later
'cause they own this fuckin' place. It’s a big club and you ain't in
it. You and I are not in the big club. By the way, it’s the same big
club they use to beat you over the head with all day long when they
tell you what to believe. All day long beating you over the head with
their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy.
The table has tilted, folks.
The game is rigged and nobody seems to
notice. Nobody seems to care. Good, honest, hard-working people: white
collar, blue collar, it 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 cocksuckers who don’t give a fuck
about them. They don’t give a fuck about you. They don’t give a fuck
about you. They don’t care about you at all! At all!
At all! And nobody
seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That’s what the owners count on.
The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the
big red, white and blue dick that’s being jammed up their assholes
every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It’s
called the American Dream, 'cause you have to be asleep to believe it."