When “Supreme” Court Justices
Selected with a contrived agenda
Occupying the “Highest” Court in the land
Typically, making “ethical” decisions
In one shape form or another have to
Hire personal attorneys to defend them
Against (get this) “ethical” violations
Over poorly written vague ethics codes
Accountable to no one or no body
Billionaire bought or leased foxes
To guard the millionaire’s henhouses
Which is why the Supreme Court is
Part of the “criminal” Justice system
Where this should have stopped
Nope
First item on the docket
Remove the word Supreme
It’s arrogant and meaningless
If Supreme decisions are overturned
Regarding half the population
There is nothing supreme about them
Rather a malignantly malleable court
Which does nothing to raise the
Collective consciousness or guide
Bipedal earthling artists towards such
Either supreme court or supreme being
Fosters fanatics like supremacists
My way or the highway type thinking
Trouble for some reason is
People like the word supreme as in
Highest in rank or authority
A linguistic abdication of responsibility
From the thought of questioning
Whatever is being considered supreme
To many, supreme is like ice cream
The concept of it sounds very tasty
However it causes the brain to freeze
Bringing inquiry to a screeching halt
What if instead of a court at all
Supreme, district, county, federal, trial, appellate, state, etc…
( WOW, that puts a whole lotta people judging others)
( In a country supposedly following the words of that Jesus fella
Matthew 7:1 Judge not, that you be not judged. 2 For with the judgment you pronounce, you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you.)
There was a way to guide humans
Towards evolutionary enlightenment
Which would seem to be why we are here
Into both seeing the error of our ways
Then guiding us towards better ones
The distraction controversial contemplation
Is to (get this) add more Justices…..hmmmmm
(How does that definition of insanity go?)
Adding four more nudniks with unearned assigned
Monikers of “honorable” when it doesn’t fit the bill
Why stop at four, why not twenty four, yet people
Not beholden to belligerent billionaire backers
All sorts of people to get a humanistic balance
Of what is in humanity’s actual best interests
Drug addicts, homeless, disabled, teachers,
Rape survivors, clerks, migrants, veterans,
Transgenders, police officers, mechanics,
Entrepreneurs, depressed and anxious, etc.
The true face of America to guide Americans
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
Indoctrination bias
Through no fault
Of your own
You were merely
The absorbing sponge
Soaking up information
Saturated in society
Pumped in by parents
When one considers
What they know or believe
Is essentially
Based on perceptions
Of background education
Triggering reactions
How can one think
They are free when
Subconsciously or
Unconsciously attached
To so many tethers
“Because your beliefs are just that, they are just how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make them real.”
– Bill Hicks
For example Democracy
Is allegedly the best
Form of government
Really……. WHY?
Because it is an
Unconscious mantra
Repeated over and over
Like a Big Lie
Till it is accepted
Without question
After all
Are all
Housed and fed…..no
Healthy and balanced…..no
Free from debt
Living without borders
Taxed highest to
Build WMD’S
You know
Devices to kill people
In large quantities
Who have no beef with you
Well, yeah, no, but
…….It’s necessary
Till people get lost
In a circular argument
Of emotional exhaustion
Well, yeah, no, but, it’s still
The best form of government
You Hoo…….McFly
“Democracy is the worst kind, I am sorry, but it is. We get to pick our leaders..well…
What if I don’t want a leader? Where does that vote go? I do good on my own, I don’t want to be “led”. Is that freedom?”
– Doug Stanhope
Same goes for religion
If you were born
Down the street
In your small town
Or a megalopolis or
Across the country or
A different part of the earth
You would believe
Having been taught
That, that religion
Is the best, even though
All are incredibly similar
Sorta based on
Do unto others……..unless……
“My God has a bigger dick than your God!”
– George Carlin
Sadly the indoctrination bias
Runs so abysmally deep
It perpetuates itself
Like a black hole in space
Growing larger by the
Debris in its orbit
Never escaping the
Dark gravitational pull
Making it harder that one
Has yet to overcome
Their indoctrination
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
How can one speak
Truth to power….when
They can’t even speak
Truth to themselves
Knowing fool well
Rather full well the
Full power is inside
Always there to
Guide all ways
Failing to recognize
One’s divine spark
As the truth source
Desperately searching
Outside themselves
What is known to be
A tiny but brilliant
Quiet internal flame
Burning eternally
Inside their spirit
As one’s true power
Like looking for
The lost keys
Under the streetlight
One does so because
It is “easier” to look there
“A policeman sees a drunk man searching for something under a streetlight and asks what the drunk has lost.
He says he lost his keys and they both look under the streetlight together. After a few minutes the policeman asks if he is sure he lost them here, and the drunk replies, no, and that he lost them in the park.
The policeman asks why he is searching here, and the drunk replies, “this is where the light is”.”
– David Freedman
Meanwhile, the multitude
Stays staggering around
Searching for approval
Or UNNECESSARY rescue
While fearing reproach
An unconscious catch-22
If 45 didn’t need his base
To continue his grift
Would in all likelihood
Make the revelation that
He considers them to be
Trash and reprobates
If such a word landed in
His limited vocabulary
Ignoring the obvious
That the keys are in the dark
And no one will ever be able
To help you find them…….
They are your keys
To drive your vehicle
The keys one had when
They “started” this “trip”
Until parents* and pressure
Politicians and pundits
Pastors and priests
Rules and restrictions
Society and surroundings
Intentionally or unintentionally
Became guises of power
A subtle, slow indoctrination
That your spark isn’t enough
By itself when it al/lways is
Mostly, one could suspect
By looking back to realize
How it occurred in various ways
I’m leaving Santa Claus out of it… for now.
“Here’s how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of religious and political hustlers got together to figure out how they could control people and keep them in line.
They knew people were basically stupid and would believe anything they were told, so these guys announced that God— God personally—had given one of them a list of Ten Commandments that he wanted everyone to follow.
They claimed the whole thing took place on a mountaintop, when no one else was around.”
– George Carlin
As to how the politicians come into play….
“Did you really think we want those laws observed?” said Dr. Ferris. “We want them to be broken. You’d better get it straight that it’s not a bunch of boy scouts you’re up against…
We’re after power and we mean it… There’s no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals.
Well, when there aren’t enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What’s there in that for anyone?
But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt.
Now that’s the system, Mr. Reardon, that’s the game, and once you understand it, you’ll be much easier to deal with.”
― Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
So few recognizing that murder is a sin (Thou shalt not kill) and “illegal” except……….when religion and the state decide it is okay.
“Hey if you read history, you realize that God is one of the leading causes of death.
Has been for thousands of years. Hindus, Muslims, Jews, Christians, all taking turns killing each other because God told them it was a good idea.
The sword of God, the blood of the lamb, vengeance is mine, millions of dead motherfuckers, all because they gave the wrong answer to the God question.
‘You believe in God?’
‘No.’
*BANG* Dead.
‘You believe in God?’
‘Yes.’
‘You believe in my God?’
‘No.’
*Bang* Dead.
‘My God has a bigger dick than your God!’
That’s how it is, isn’t it?”
Wasn’t it the “state” that killed that Jesus fella ?
Whose only crime was promoting peace? WTF
* HONOR THY FATHER AND MOTHER.
This commandment is about obedience and respect for authority; in other words it’s simply a device for controlling people. The truth is, obedience and respect should not be granted automatically. They should be earned. They should be based on the parents’ (or the authority figure’s) performance. Some parents deserve respect. Most of them don’t. Period.
– George Carlin’s partial take on the “Ten Commandments”
This is longer than usual, thanks for making it to the end.
Brought about by a subjective perspective from
“Looking at the world through a windshield”
Unbeknownst to the company I work for that thinks
They are paying me to drive are paying me to think
What better gig one could ask for I do not know
Sitting on my butt with my hands on the steering wheel
Listening to music, books, news, or nothing at all
Save for the wind and where the rubber meets the road
Trying desperately to make sense of this world
With all of its fun fomented foibles and fables
Into a workable framework from practical theory
Sometimes when you see things over and over
In different light, shades, shadows and temperature
Coming towards you or speeding up from behind
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
George Carlin
One can not help but to experience things differently
If for nothing else at least metaphorically speaking
One of the rabbits I keep chasing down the rabbit hole
Is that it is impossible if not extremely unlikely that
An all powerful omniscient being is only masculine
Therefore have adopted the notion noted in a Bible
“In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
That Word is interchangeable with the word God
Devoid of gender therefore no patriarchy or matriarchy
Seeing as how they are one in the same as essentially
Everything emanates from derivatives of Word(s)
Knowing that all W/word(s) occur infinitely all ways
In all languages every translation infinite interpretation
In other words, Word(s) exist beyond “beginnings”
Also brought about in this lifetime by Einstein that
Everything is happening all at once and was quoted
“All I want to do is learn to think like God (Word).
All the rest is just details.”
— Albert Einstein
What better way to experience experiences than to know
Like protons neutrons and electrons make up matter so do
Words and their vague or defined definitions make up realty
Which make up words like food, water, shelter, breathing,
She, he, they, them, individuals, all as sparks of the divine Word
Pooping, peeing, believing, hoping for love, laughter and truth
Here goes,
“For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only son, that everyone who believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.”
– John 3:16
A Different Take
“For Word so loved the world, that Word gave to this world, the word Forgiveness, that everyone who forgives shall ever be forgivable.”
– WORD
Seeing how as life is already eternal, merely changes shape
Has nothing to do with an invisible man in the “clouds”
So detached he “allowed” savior filicide to “prove” his “love”
To something that already has “eternal” life, belief (ve, it) or not
“I don’t even understand the connection with ‘died for your sins’.
He died for your sin, well, how does one affect the other?
‘I hit myself in the foot with a shovel for your mortgage”…
– Doug Stanhope
Also
“Why would you die for someone’s sins? Your sins are the only thing interesting about you, you dreary, bleak motherfuckers.”
– Doug Stanhope
Back to my rant….
Based on words like miracle, karma, reason, purpose and service
Methinks it would behoove us as a species who is
Conscious of having consciousness of consciousness
Better use that in peaceful advancement of our evolution
That we can access so much more from infinity
Than a Santa Claus caricature willing to expend his children
In an intentional malicious drowning or nailed to dead trees
“I just think it is interesting to see how people act on their beliefs you know what I mean. Because your beliefs are just that, they are just how you were taught and raised. That doesn’t make them real.
– Bill Hicks
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
By the way, if one doesn’t think that words make up everything, try holding on to a thought that doesn’t have a word, then try describing that thought without using words.
Will close this with some more words by George Carlin
“I love words. I thank you for hearing (reading) my words.
I want to tell you something about words that I think is important.
They’re my work, they’re my play, they’re my passion.
Words are all we have, really. We have thoughts but thoughts are fluid.
Then we assign a word to a thought and we’re stuck with that word for that thought.
So be careful with words. I like to think that the same words that hurt can heal, it is a matter of how you pick them.”
George Carlin’s prelude to his famous 7 word bit.
You would think
One would find
Truth in advertising
Would be in a
Bible sales ad
That was found
Using the term
Limited supply*
*(A hyperbolic ruse
Suggesting scarcity
Triggering fear that
You won’t get one)
As a sales tactic
To get you to buy theirs
For a mere $ 70.00
Plus shipping unless
You buy three
Before they are
All gone forever
When the content
Can be found free
Online or at a library
Even the KJV, as in a
King James rendition
V meaning “version”
Suggesting immediately
There are other versions
Imagine that ………..
God’s “Word” altered
By a man of wealth in
Power and control to
Keep his subjects
The bourgeoisie
Poor and Proletariat
In line
Oops, got sidetracked
Back to this “Bible”
Which includes copies
Of the Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Pledge of Allegiance and the
Bill of Rights
More documents
Available free
Without limits
Written by white men
Vague and alter-able
In their constant battle
To return to the notion that
All men are created equal
When it really meant men
Who were land holding
Slave owners as in
“All animals are equal,
but some animals are
more equal than others”
– George Orwell
“A proclamation by the pigs who control the government in the novel Animal Farm, by George Orwell. The sentence is a comment on the hypocrisy of governments that proclaim the absolute equality of their citizens but give power and privileges to a small elite.”
– dictionary.com
Without further distraction
Methinks God’s Bible
Is written in the
Individual’s heart
The One Place
With some version of
“Do unto others as
You would have them
Do unto you”
That quick research
Reveals are easily found
In all theologies
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
That many are addicted to is
When you live in a VR world
Then you put on a VR headset
While distracting, it is still designed
To show the user how much better
The original VR / PR (perceived reality)
Is, and is as “real” as it gets
To have conversations worth having
Actual human inner interactions
With other bipedal earthling artists
Not yet quite fully deprogrammed
From their original divine programming
Hard wired in to their soft ware
“Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
Where have you been?
It’s alright we know where you’ve been
//
Welcome my son
Welcome to the machine
What did you dream?
It’s alright we told you what to dream”
Pink Floyd
“Welcome To The Machine”
“The problem’s plain to see:
Too much technology
Machines to save our lives.
Machines dehumanize.”
Styx
“Mr. Roboto”
But only…….if we let them
“The people will not revolt. They will not look up from their screens long enough to notice what is happening.”
– George Orwell “1984”
Lest of course we start here
“The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in your reality for a role. You trade in your sense for an act. You give up your ability to feel, and in exchange, put on a mask.
There can’t be any large-scale revolution until there’s a personal revolution, on an individual level. It’s got to happen inside first”
Jim Morrison
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
“Or a newer “head” set.”
– Angelo Devlin
.
.
“From A Distance”
From a distance
The world looks blue and green,
and the snow-capped mountains white.
From a distance
The ocean meets the stream,
and the eagle takes to flight.
From a distance, there is harmony,
and it echoes through the land.
It’s the voice of hope,
it’s the voice of peace,
it’s the voice of every man.
From a distance we all have enough,
And no one is in need.
And there are no guns, no bombs,
And no disease,
No hungry mouths to feed.
From a distance we are instruments
Marching in a common band.
Playing songs of hope,
Playing songs of peace.
They’re the songs of every man.
God is watching us. God is watching us.
God is watching us from a distance.
From a distance you look like my friend,
Even though we are at war.
From a distance
I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for.
From a distance there is harmony,
And it echoes through the land.
And it’s the hope of hopes,
It’s the love of loves,
it’s the heart of every man.
It’s the hope of hopes,
Iit’s the love of loves.
This is the song of every man.
And God is watching us,
God is watching us,
God is watching us from a distance.
Oh, God is watching us, God is watching.
God is watching us………. from a distance”
– Better Midler
From a further distance
This gets a little trippy
Beyond the above perspective
Making no matter what you do
Most importantly insignificant
Perspective
“B: the capacity to view things in their
true relations or relative importance”
M-W.com
While the above seems spot on
Is absolutely a global view to see
My tendency is to go a bit further
(Because like Tommy Shaw
Of Styx sang, I’ve got way, way
“Too Much Time On My Hands”)
“When you change the way you look at things,
the things you look at change.”
– Dr Wayne Dyer
To the ridiculously sublime
By putting a long tethered
“You Are Here” icon above
Where you, me, they, are at
With that in mind, let’s go
To see things as they are
Beyond Bette Midler’s song
Looking from above or any
“Side” of the sphere will do
In any direction you choose
Assuming you are in your house
Staring at one of many screens
Thankfully reading this nonsense
(While wondering why one man
Is getting such endless “screen time”)
In the light or dark side of the earth
Rising above it all to see the neighborhood
With its streets and buildings
Cars parked or moving about
As it all gets smaller and smaller
Where you still “look like my friend”
Some milling anxiously about like
Ants on an ant farm seeking
Shelter, food and everything else
Above factories and fields for
Manufacturing consumables
And destroying beautiful land
Splattershot with various
Building offices and prisons
One in the same really
Hospitals and cemeteries
Airports and oceans
Snow capped mountains
Sprinkled in colorful
Coat covered corpses to
Seeing under the horizon
Russia and Ukraine
Setting off deadly fireworks
“Even though we are at war.
From a distance
I just cannot comprehend
What all this fighting is for.”
Rising up or sinking below the moon
Keeping time with the tides
Feeling the warmth of the sun
Observing the planets in our
Neck of the woods of the Milky Way
Continuing on the trajectory of
“Eternal blackness beyond the stars (that)
We think our wisdom will get that far”
“If Eternity Should Fail”
– Iron Maiden
Only to pass other galaxies
So far away that finally the tethered
“You Are Here” sign starts getting small too
Looking oddly like
Mary Poppins with an umbrella
You slow and pause to reflect
How miniscule and tiny
What once was the earth as a speck
Followed by the Milky Way as a point
Then the cluster of galaxies as a dot
You realize that the myths of
Creation and the BIG BANG are just that
Myths (2B : an unfounded or false notion) – M-W.com
(3A : a thing having only an imaginary or unverifiable existence)
God is not an invisible man residing in heaven
For you would have passed “heaven” a long “time” ago
Recalling that one biblical nugget that God is the Word
(All words, making the perception of “reality” possible)
“In the beginning the Word already existed.
The Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
John 1:1
And with that tiny dot floating in front of you
The glow of the next galaxy behind your back
You gasp at the miracle of your next breath
Then realize you just inhaled all of existence
Of which you, me, we and they are a part of apart of
A Further Distance
“I think we’re part of a greater wisdom that we won’t ever understand, a higher order. Call it what you want. You know what I call it?
The big electron… the big electron. Woooohhhh, woooohhhh, woooohhhh. It doesn’t punish, it doesn’t reward, it doesn’t judge at all. It just is and so are we… for a little while”
– George Carlin
Also that Bill Hicks is right.
“It is just a ride”
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Over an event that occurred
Some 24 score years ago
With an enemy now an ally
Then just 9 years in the making
Which is when it should have stopped
Depending on each other again
Probably to shore up each other’s
Pathetic pink power of patriarchy
When was when way more than half of the
Population was yet independent enough
To vote or own property due to
Different reproduction parts
Epidermis hue and first residency
Still the Proletariat gets to
Celebrate “their” independence
Not because they are free, freewill directed
Bright individual sparks of the divine
Rather unconscious ambulatory corpses
Indoctrinated into believing they are “free”
“You were born free, you got fucked out of half of it, and you wave a flag celebrating it.”
– Doug Stanhope
“According to the American Pyrotechnics Association (APA), we spent $2.3 billion * on fireworks in 2022.
//
Last year alone, there were an estimated 11,500 emergency room visits for injuries related to fireworks, including 11 deaths. Here are the most commonly injured body parts:
• Eyes:16%
• Head, face, and ears: 19%
• Hands and fingers: 29%
• Trunk and other: 12%
• Legs: 19%
– http://www.fool.com
* (Of which over $ 900 million went to China, a country I’ve heard the US has a trade deficit with. Hmmmmm. Also that a war is always looming in the background for no apparent reason. Certainly not, when it is receiving such large sums on a single product, completely unnecessary in our spiritual evolution.)
Not me, I like my fingers, if for nothing else, then to write this useless nonsense, that keeps me independent and free.
“Just an observation,
Maybe I need
Different glasses.”
– Angelo Devlin
Determined to be somewhere
Between conception and the
Demarcation of unintentional death
In its spiritual evolutionary path
As to when a child goes from being
Special, to being, not so “Special”
From a planted seed in a garden
To a rotting corpse in the ground
A microscopic dot multiplying cells
Into an esophagus to colon tube
Supported by a forming spine
Even after all of that miraculous stuff
It is okey dokey to dispose of that car
Right up until the engine starts running
Though no driver is even in the vehicle
Sometimes, right before it exits the building
“I’m against abortion, except like in cases of rape.
That’s like saying, yes, a fetus is a human being.
Unless his (or her) dad is an asshole.”
– Doug Stanhope
(Even that provision is losing traction
Otherwise, terminations would last a lifetime)
Just another car in the assembly line
In a fertile factory replicating itself
Regardless of quota or the environment
One would think that with all of the
Malignant medical manipulation and
All of the ludicrous legislative lunacy
Once the anticipated miracle arrived
It would receive similar treatment
Of love, protection, safety, laws and
Miracle type, alleged gift from God status
Nope…..
Once you are out, you are on your own
“No nothing. No neonatal care, no day care, no head start, no school lunch, no food stamps, no welfare, no nothing. If you’re preborn, you’re fine………; if you’re preschool, you’re fucked.”
– George Carlin
Which seems to be the first miraculous cut-off
Then, just to challenge those miracles
They are sent to schools where maybe they will be
Miracles again, if they survive a school shooting since
Nothing is done to stop the proliferation of WMD’S
Or who has random “legal” access to them
To defend themselves against a tyrannical government
(Giggle, guffaw, snort pause, goes right here)
Rapidly deployed bullets from weapons destroy mass
Proving the cliché, “guns don’t kill people”…. bullets do
Besides, if they successfully dodge those bullets
(Every lead filled, brass casing, penis projectile pun intended)
“Conservatives don’t give a shit about you, until you reach “military age”. Then they think you are just fine. Just what they’ve been looking for. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers.”
– George Carlin
A small percentage will be recruited to sign up
To be mercenaries for the government for training
In the “proper” use of the weapons of corporate
Coercion in the stealing of resources under
The ruse of defending and protecting “democracy”
Where post natal abortions are legally performed
Either side, doesn’t matter, just tools in the
Corporment toolbox of readily available profiteering
Enough so, that all miracles are tossed aside
As collateral damage buried in flag draped coffins
“Let’s just think about this for a minute”
– Bill Hicks
Roughly 25% of the taxes no one wants to pay anyway
Goes towards the military industrial complex
In the building of machines for the soul sole purpose
Of cutting off miracles in their purported prime
In the midst of doing everything possible to save
Every “miracle” planted by accident or rape
And never ever using tax dollars to do so
(Giggle, guffaw, snort pause, goes right here)
“Ever wonder why we’re #ucked up as a species?”
– Bill Hicks
“I write to expunge the darkness so
That someday light may shine through”
– Angelo Devlin
In a fifty year
Blink of the eye
Las Vegas went
From a small corrupt
Gangster run
Gambling town to a
Corporation owned
Fantasy land where
A one armed bandit *
Will continue to rob
Its welcome visitors
Drawn by the lure of
Impossible easy money
A mini America
If you will **
A land raping
Environment be damned
Sprawling wasteland
Of desert degradation
Meant for lizards and
Corpse containers
“Bodies Pulled From Parched Lake Mead Stir Wise-Guy Ghosts of Las Vegas”
“As climate change fuels grim discoveries across the West, Las Vegas is awash in bets on the identity of a suspected murder victim dumped in a barrel.”
By Simon Romero
http://www.nytimes.com
• Published May 20, 2022
Constantly inventing
Newer sparkling ways
To empty open wallets
Not based on COGS
(Cost Of Goods Sold)
Rather WTMWB
(Whatever The Market Will Bear)
Throw the highest price
Sticker on it to see if it sells
If it moves off the shelf
Or if the lines are still long
Adjust upward and repeat
Discover no price is too high
To line the pockets of CEO’s
Making greedy policies
Permanent and perpetual
*
“One-Armed” because of its single lever depicting an arm and “bandit” because of its nature to collect an addicted player’s cash leaving him with nothing. The first generation of slot machines evolved from a novelty item to a more complex server-based gaming machine.”
– emeraldislandcasino.com
(Side note)
Gaming, what a useless euphemism. It’s a gambling machine. Life is a gamble. Investing in the stock market or real estate is gambling. Parents sending their children to school, gamble they will not be picking them up at the morgue, having bled out because politicians gamble with the second amendment that it will garner more votes then dead kids in their district. Obviously still a pretty safe bet. At the expense of the fetuses they saved to gamble with.
“I don’t like words that hide the truth. I don’t like words that conceal reality. I don’t like euphemisms or euphemistic language.
And American English is loaded with euphemisms, because Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality.
Americans have trouble facing the truth, so they invent the kind of a soft language to protect themselves from it. And it gets worse with every generation. For some reason it just keeps getting worse.”
– George Carlin
**
“It just seems to me, that only a really low IQ population could have taken this beautiful continent, this magnificent American landscape that we inherited.
Well actually we stole it from the Mexicans and the Indians, but hey, it was nice when we stole it. Looked pretty good, it was pristine. Paradise.
Have you seen it lately? Have you taken a good look at it lately? It’s fucking embarrasing. Only a nation of unenlightened half-wits could have taken this beautiful place and turned it into what it is today – a shopping mall.
A big fucking shopping mall. You know that, that’s all you’ve got here, folks. Mile after mile after mile of malls after malls. Many, many malls. Major malls and mini malls.
They put the mini malls in between the major malls, and in between the mini malls, they put the mini marts. And in between the mini marts, you got the car lots, gas stations, muffler shops, laundry mats, cheap motels, fast food joints, strip clubs and dirty bookstores.
America the beautiful. One big transcontinental commercial cesspool. And how do the people feel about all this? How do people feel about living in a coast to coast shopping mall? Well they think it’s JUST FUCKING DANDY!”
– George Carlin
“Life is worth losing”
Looking at the world through a windshield. 