George Carlin was correctly cynical about ‘the American Dream’, but are our elites monolithic?
I recently ran across (again) the below clip by our now deceased comedian cum truth-teller, George Carlin. While he offers some refreshingly bitter criticism, Carlin is too simplistic and too black, and offers no particular avenues by which informed American sheep can seek to regain control over their lives.
There is no monolithic “them”. Our ‘Left’ and ‘Right’ politics both mask and manifest the very real power struggles among our governing elites — there is hope in this, but the real problem is not that none of them cares about making the world a better place, but that all of our elites seem to be statists who think that the struggle over the wheel of government is the only way to a better future.
Few of them seem to understand the centralization of power, parasitism and rot that have resulted from fractional-reserve banking and the subsequent capture of it by the Federal government — and none appears to understand that the very grant of legal entity status to corporations whose owners have no personal liability for what these entities do drives an even more pervasive socialization of risks, destruction of community and a snowballing growth of the regulatory state and the fight to control and profit from it.
Really improving our societies will require us really to understand and strike at, and not ignore, the roots of the problems that are strangling us.
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