• IninewCrow@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    George Carlin would have probably suffered a heart attack (from seeing how stupid his country could actually become) or assassination (by the anger of the dumb people he pointed out) if he were alive now …

    ‘Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.’

    ‘Governments don’t want a population capable of critical thinking, they want obedient workers, people just smart enough to run the machines and just dumb enough to passively accept their situation.’

    For anyone reading this … go listen, watch, or read anything by George Carlin … if you want to learn, appreciate, understand or have any kind of critical point of view of the world and especially America … go listen to George Carlin.

    • Dyskolos@lemmy.zip
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      1 day ago

      Not a murican, but I sure love Carlin so I can only second you strongly.

      And yeah he would have probably jumped off a tower already, because too much is too much.

      That’s the problem if run around with open eyes and an open mind in a broken world: it’s hard to not grow cynical.