Maybe we can all agree that George Carlin said it best...

[ancientmariner]

"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 important land. They own, and control the corporations. They've long since bought, and paid for the Senate, the Congress, the state houses, the city halls, they got the judges in their back pockets and they own all the big media companies, so they control just about all of the news and information you get to hear. They 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, 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. That's right. They don't want people who are smart enough to sit around a kitchen table and think about how badly they're getting f**ked by a system that threw them overboard 30 f**kin' years ago. They don't want that. You know what they want? They want obedient workers . . . Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork. And just dumb enough to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits, the end of overtime and vanishing pension that disappears the minute you go to collect it, and now they're coming for your Social Security money. They want your f**kin' 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 from you sooner or later cause they own this f**kin' place. 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 with their media telling you what to believe, what to think and what to buy. The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard-working people . . . white collar, blue collar it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard-working people continue, these are people of modest means . . . continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a f**k about you. They don't give a f**k about you . . . they don't give a f**k about you. They don't care about you at all . . . at all . . . at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care. That's what the owners count on. The fact that Americans will probably remain willfully ignorant of the big red, white and blue dick that's being jammed up their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth. It's called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it . . ."

[Geolibertarian]

George Carlin on Euphemisms

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. 'Cause Americans have a lot of trouble dealing with reality. Americans have trouble facing the truth. So they invent a 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. I'll give you an example of that.

There's a condition in combat, most people know about it, it's when a fighting person's nervous system has been stressed to it's absolute peak and maximum -- can't take anymore input. The nervous system has either (click) snapped or is about to snap. In the first world war, that condition was called "shell shock." Simple, honest, direct language. Two syllables: "shell shock." Almost sounds like the guns themselves. That was seventy years ago.

Then a whole generation went by, and the second world war came along, and the very same combat condition was called "battle fatigue." Four syllables now. Takes a little longer to say. Doesn't seem to hurt as much. Fatigue is a nicer word than shock. "Shell shock!"..."Battle fatigue."

Then we had the war in Korea, 1950. Madison avenue was riding high by that time, and the very same combat condition was called "operational exhaustion." Hey, were up to eight syllables now! And the humanity has been squeezed completely out of the phrase. It's totally sterile now. "Operational exhaustion." Sounds like something that might happen to your car.

Then of course came the war in Vietnam, which has only been over for about sixteen or seventeen years, and thanks to the lies and deceit surrounding that war, I guess it's no surprise that the very same condition was called "post-traumatic stress disorder." Still eight syllables, but we've added a hyphen, and the pain is completely buried under jargon! "Post-traumatic stress disorder." I'll bet ya if we'd of still been calling it "shell shock," some of those Vietnam veterans might have gotten the attention they needed at the time. I'll betcha that. I'll betcha that.

But it didn't happen. And one of the reasons, one of the reasons, is because we were using that soft language -- that language that takes the life out of life. And it is a function of time. It does keep getting worse. I'll give you another example.

Sometime during my life, sometime during my life, "toilet paper" became "bathroom tissue." I wasn't notified of this. No one asked me if I agreed with it. It just happened. "Toilet paper" became "bathroom tissue."

"Sneakers" became "running shoes."

"False teeth" became "dental appliances."

"Medicine" became "medication."

"Information" became "directory assistance."

"The dump" became "the landfill."

"Car crashes" became "automobile accidents."

"Partly cloudy" bacame "partly sunny."

"Motels" became "motor lodges."

"House trailers" became "mobile homes."

"Used cars" became "previously owned transportation."

"Room service" became "guest-room dining."

And "constipation" became "occasional irregularity."

When I was a little kid, if I got sick they wanted me to go to the hospital and see the doctor. Now they want me to go to a "health maintenance organization," or a "wellness center" -- to consult a "healthcare delivery professional."

"Poor people" used to live in "slums." Now the "economically disadvantaged" occupy "substandard housing in the inner cities." And they're broke! They're broke! They don't have a "negative cash-flow position." They're f**king broke! 'Cause a lot of them were fired. You know, "fired"? -- management wanted to "curtail redundancies" in the "human resources area," so many people are no longer "viable members of the workforce"?

Smug, greedy, well-fed white people have invented a language to conceal their sins, it's as simple as that.

The CIA doesn't kill anybody anymore, they "neutralize" people, or they "depopulate" the area. The government doesn't lie, it engages in "disinformation." The pentagon actually measures nuclear radiation in something they call "sunshine units." Israeli murderers are called commandos. Arab commandos are called "terrorists." Contra killers are called "freedom fighters." Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part of it to us, do they? Never mention that part of it.

[unitedstrokesofamerica]

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[America2]

Interesting how he talked about the evolving PC language.

Medicine may have become Medication, but it was STILL dog vommit either way. Funny how every term they changed due to PC, the masses were just BLINDED over its quality(i.e. all of a sudden, these things were either "great" or "not as bad as it seems").

Also - Amway went from "Pyramid Scheme" to "Multi Level Marketing" when they started recruiting students(including myself) on college campuses in the 1990's.

[ancientmariner]

Back in the 70's, 80's and 90's Carlin just appeared to be a comedian that spouted a lot of truth but not enough truth to take too seriously. Now you read his jokes and he looks like a prophet. Amazing how far ahead of his time he was.

[heavyhebrew]

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[Joe(WI)]

Interesting how he talked about the evolving PC language.

Medicine may have become Medication, but it was STILL dog vommit either way. Funny how every term they changed due to PC, the masses were just BLINDED over its quality(i.e. all of a sudden, these things were either "great" or "not as bad as it seems").

Also - Amway went from "Pyramid Scheme" to "Multi Level Marketing" when they started recruiting students(including myself) on college campuses in the 1990's.

1984 BABY!! You nailed it-homer! The Newspeak has done its dirty work brainwashing people into letting it all just happen. Egads, was he ever right, and I didn't realize it!