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710 on November 17, 2007 - 2:22pm

A George Carlin short, about education, critical thinking, why the problem won't get fixed, and the fraud of the American Dream.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCojqV5dMkk

I'd also love if people got the education they need, but it works out better for those at the top when most of the populace lacks the very ability to figure out how badly they're getting screwed.

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step back on November 18, 2007 - 10:38am

710,

Your video has apparently been censured due to excessive violence.

Suggest you replace it with a patriotic piece explaining why killing Iraqi's over there so they now have a reason to come over here is a good idea for America.

Speaking of education, I remember in grade school they taught us about the parts of the human body: the heart, the skeleton, the muscles; but nothing about the brain.

Maybe the first step is to teach kids about that odd lump of grey that fills our skulls and how it actually operates rather than filling the lump with fantasy tales about Snow White, Cinderella and the Sorcerer's Apprentice?

We're not what we think we are.

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710 on November 18, 2007 - 11:39pm

Here's another Carlin video of exactly the same thing from the same performance. Have no idea why the other one was removed, all of Carlin's other bits are still out on Google Video or YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgKMCCgyUx8

Alternately, view the entire 75 minute performance at:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7068677712290004125

The bit on education starts at 39:45.

As for a patriotic piece on the war in Iraq, what's more patriotic than one of those *#@&^%&# magnetic ribbons on your car?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmsOIjzQ1V8
(warning: language)

I remember the same thing from grade school about the brain, being told that the brain was the least understood of the organs.

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step back on November 19, 2007 - 8:04am

"The American Dream; you have to be asleep to believe in it" --George Carlin

710,

Thanx for the link. George had so much in that whistling past the graveyard show that I forgot about this one small section of it.

I'm not big on conspiracy theories though. (Carlin argues that there are "owners" who own and control this country.) I don't think there is one controlling group of Illuminati who know all and control all. That's as absurd as believing in an invisible deity who actually gives a hoot about whether you, as one of 6.6 Billion festering insects stuck to your diet. Oh Lord give me strength to resist this chocolate cake. Give me a break. There is only one "Lord" listening and that's you listening to you.

No. There is no conspiracy. This madness is all the product of our evolution-cobbled brains playing tricks on us. We are so easily fooled by the randomness that we see faces on Mars.

"Education" is the way it is because of the interplay between all the greed driven forces in our society.

We're not what we think we are.

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