I miss him already. Carlin had a lot to say about our society. He was much more than a comedian, more like a Chomsky on dexedrine, full of New Yorker straight- talk observations on this American life.

John Nichols in The Nation,6/23/08, has written a piece called " George Carlin :American Radical ". Clearly, Carlin wanted to do more than just entertain - he wanted people to Think. And thinking, in a time of universal deceit, can be a dangerous thing.

An excerpt of Carlin's observations on the class warfare of the rich on the poor in our society  (  the greatest concentration of wealth in the fewest hands since 1929's Crash ) are especially spot-on, now that the thin veneer of civility has been torn away by rising energy prices, and the true face and intentions of the ruling moneyed classes have become apparent-endless crisis and war in a scorched earth century . (  Scientists say a 50/50 chance no ice at the North Pole this summer--- no ice year round by 2030 !!!! )




.... " The real owners are the big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians, they're are an irrelevancy. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

... I'll tell you what the ( owners ) 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 a kitchen table and figure out how they're getting fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking 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 shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, reduced benefits, the end of overtime pay, and the vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it. And now they're coming for your Social security. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street. And you know something? They'll get it. They'll get it all, because they own this fucking place. It's a big club, and you and I ain't in it. You and I are not in the big club."

--- George Carlin