{"id":1719,"date":"2014-04-10T12:41:16","date_gmt":"2014-04-10T19:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1719"},"modified":"2024-09-19T18:59:03","modified_gmt":"2024-09-20T01:59:03","slug":"george-carlin-the-american-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1719","title":{"rendered":"George Carlin &#8211; The American Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"epyt-video-wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  id=\"_ytid_33097\"  width=\"480\" height=\"360\"  data-origwidth=\"480\" data-origheight=\"360\"  data-relstop=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/kJ4SSvVbhLw?enablejsapi=1&#038;autoplay=0&#038;cc_load_policy=0&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;loop=0&#038;modestbranding=1&#038;fs=1&#038;playsinline=0&#038;controls=1&#038;color=red&#038;cc_lang_pref=&#038;rel=0&#038;autohide=2&#038;theme=dark&#038;\" class=\"__youtube_prefs__  epyt-is-override  no-lazyload\" title=\"YouTube player\"  allow=\"fullscreen; accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen data-no-lazy=\"1\" data-skipgform_ajax_framebjll=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<p><br \/>&#8220;They don\u2019t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they\u2019re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin\u2019 years ago. They don\u2019t 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\u2019re coming for your Social Security money. They want your fuckin&#8217; retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They\u2019ll get it. They\u2019ll get it all from you sooner or later &#8217;cause they own this fuckin&#8217; place. It\u2019s a big club and you ain&#8217;t in it. You and I are not in the big club. &#8230;The table is tilted, folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. &#8230;And nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That\u2019s what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that\u2019s being jammed up their assholes every day, because the owners of this country know the truth. It\u2019s called the American Dream, &#8217;cause you have to be asleep to believe it.&#8221;<br \/>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/George_Carlin\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Carlin<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Related &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1412\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Extreme Human Behaviour<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1469\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Crazy People<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1706\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The American War Machine<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;They don\u2019t want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they\u2019re getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fuckin\u2019 years ago. They don\u2019t want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers. Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/?p=1719\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">George Carlin &#8211; The American Dream<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2023,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,35,24,41,15,12,26,29,32,31,42,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-awareness","category-consciousness","category-existence","category-experience","category-identity","category-linguistics","category-love","category-peace","category-perception","category-power","category-reality","category-society"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1719"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3030,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1719\/revisions\/3030"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.thekube.me\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}