“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 statehouses, the city halls. They've got the judges in their back pockets. And they own all the big media companies, so that they control just about all of the news and information you hear. They've 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.” —George Carlin
The political-economic-sociocultural matrix contains self-owners, slaves, the slave masters and their proxies. As self-owners, we believe it is more important to know what the masters have planned for their slaves and proxies than to know who they are.
“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. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around the kitchen table and figure out how badly they're getting f*cked by a system that threw them overboard 30 f*cking years ago. You know what they want? Obedient workers—people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork but just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly sh*ttier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it.” —George Carlin
References
- Carlin, George. Who really controls America.
- Nichols, John (2008). George Carlin: American Radical. In "The Beat" in The Nation, June 23, 2008.
