Picasso had his blue period. Let's just call this my embittered phase. The excerpts below from the monologues entitled Life is Worth Losing and You are All Diseased clearly shows that George Carlin who, as anyone who has followed his career over the years knows always lives on the edge, has obviously gone off the deep end. I have removed some of the more virulent words against wealth and America which I consider childishly niave. I print it here because . . . . . well I don't exactly know why I print it here. Be forewarned if the politically incorrect offends you do not read any further just surf onto the next web site.




From Life is Worth Losing



politicians have traditionally hidden behind three things: the flag the bible and children. No child left behind. It wasn't long ago you were talking about giving kids a head start. Head start, left behind, someone's losing fucking ground here. But there's a reason, there's a reason that education sucks and there's a reason it will never, ever, ever be fixed. Never gonna get any better, don't look for it. Be happy with what you got. Because the owners of his country don't want that. I'm talkin about the real owners 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 big media companies so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. . . .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 that. They want obedient workers. Obedient workers. People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paper work . . .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 in their media telling what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table is tilted folks, the game is rigged, and nobody seems to notice, nobody seems to care.





From You are All Diseased



Something else I'm getting tired of is all this stupid bullshit we have to listen to about children that's all you hear in this country: children, help the children, what about the children, save the children. . . . .They're getting entirely too much attention. And I know what you're thinking, Jesus he's not going to attack children is he? YES HE IS!! He's going to attack children! And remember this is Mr. Conductor talking. I know what I'm talking about. I know what I'm talking about. And I also know all you single dads and soccer moms who think you're such fuckin heroes aren't going to like this but somebody's gotta tell you for you're own good, You're children are overrated and overvalued you've turned them into little cult objects, you have a child fetish, and it's not healthy. And don't give me that weak shit, well I love my children, Fuck you, everybody loves their children, doesn't make you special, .... What I'm talking about is this constant mindless yammering in the media, this neurotic fixation that somehow everything EVERYTHING has to revolve around children. It's completely out of balance. . . . . Today's kids are way too soft, for one thing there's too much emphasis on safety. Child proof medicine bottles and fire proof pajamas, child restraints and car seats, and helmets bicycles, skateboard, the baseball helmets, kids have to wear helmets now for everything but jerkin off. Grownups have taken all the fun out of being a kid . . . . It's pathetic. It's pathetic. What's happening is these baby boomers, these soft, fruity baby boomers are raising an entire generation of soft, fruity kids who aren't even allowed to have hazardous toys for chrissakes. Hazardous toys, shit, what ever happened to natural selection, survival of the fittest, the kid who swallows too many marbles doesn't grow up to have kids of his own. Simple as that. . . . . Here's another bunch of ignorant shit, school uniforms, bad theory. The idea that if kids wear uniforms to school it helps keep order. Don't these schools do enough damage making these kids think alike, now there gonna get em to look alike too. And it's not a new idea, I first saw it in old news reels from the 1930s but it was hard to understand because the narration was in German. One more item about childen, and that is this superstious nonsense that blames tabacco companies for kids who smoke, listen, kids don't smoke because a camel in sunglasses tells them to. They smoke for the same reason adults do, because it relieves anxiety and depression. And you'd be anxious and depressed to if you had to put up with these pathetic insecure striving anal yuppie parents who enroll you in college before you're old enough to know which side of the playpen smells the worst. And then they fill you full of Ritalin and drag you all over town in search of meaningless structure. Little league, cub scouts, swimming, soccer, karate, piano, bagpipes, water colors, witchcraft, glass blowing, and dildo practice. They even have play dates for chrissakes. Playing is now done by appointment. .... Hey, no wonder kids smoke, it helps. . . . You know it's true. Parents are burning these kids out on structure. I think every day all children should have three hours of daydreaming, just daydreaming. You could use a little of it yourself by the way. Just sit at the window and stare at the clouds, it's good for you. If you want to know how you can help your children. LEAVE THEM THE FUCK ALONE!!!






       The vast majority of these parents are sincere but ignorant of the damage they are doing to their children. But there is a significant group of criminal parents who use the ' I'm doing it all for the children.' refrain to conceal and justify their crimes. These criminals are easily identifiable to the trained eye. They are the ones who are always screaming the loudest and longest about the children and the future. They also make certain everyone around them knows how much they care and sacrifice for their children. An exteme case in point: in the years following World War II when the children of the surviving Nazis asked their fathers why they did what they did they responded with the sanctimonious sincerity of the rigorously programmed 'We were doing it for you the children and for the future of humanity.' The Roman Emperor Tiberius, who out of paranoia and senility murdered his children and many of his grandchildren before his surviving grandchildren suffocated him with a pillow out of desperation, remarked near the end of his life that he was creating a nest of vipers to rule the empire. And indeed the criminally insane Nero and Caligula, who had been tormented by Tiberius in chidhood, became two of the most infamous political leaders in history. Like Tiberius these criminal parents understand full well the damage they are doing to their children while they babble to all about how everything should be for the children.
       Obviously I am not against children. Certainly our children must be protected, to a point. However I will not hesitate to speak up against those who use and ultimately damage both the children and the community by using the pretense of protecting children for their own selfish purposes. In my own hometown of Pittsburgh hardly a week goes by without a sensationalized broadcast news story about some sexual predator on the internet which is invariably a lead story. The obviously deliberate innuendo presented by these news items give the impression that the internet is a haven full of perverts looking to exploit helpless young children. Could this have anything to do with the fact that the internet has deeply cut into television ratings? Nooooooooo. This is just objective news reporting of the facts. Even more upsetting and insidious is that these sensationalized news features are being used to justify internet censorship which certain elements have been working for since the creation of the World Wide Web.