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More Words of Truth and Wisdom From George Carlin

November 3rd, 2011 No comments

George Carlin sums up in only 3 minutes and 19 seconds what we all should be aware of in this society of illusion.

Are we really free individuals, both in mind and body?

Well, I will let George explain the rest, which should both liberate and educate one towards seeing the world for what it is – a big farm containing human cattle.

George Carlin Warns Us That We Have No Rights

November 2nd, 2011 2 comments

As I have previously written in the post ‘The Wise and True Prophets of Comedy (Part 1): George Carlin’, George Carlin was both a comedian and wise commentator on political and social issues.

In the following video, George Carlin (1937-2008) made one final live appearance in his ‘It’s Bad for Ya’ HBO special four months before he died.  On this program, he offered up his take on the state of the nation, including his observation that Americans don’t really have any rights – this, I should hasten to add, applies to everyone in the Western hemisphere.

By all means have a laugh with good old George but for your own sake, wake up, wisen up, and take your lives back!

The Wise and True Prophets of Comedy (Part 2): Bill Hicks

July 19th, 2010 3 comments

Hicks: The smoking "Truth-Seeker" of comedy

I now like to turn your attention to the late Bill Hicks, who was in the same mould as George Carlin, featured in the post ‘The Wise and True Prophets of Comedy (Part 1): George Carlin’.

In fact, the young Bill Hicks was very much inspired/influenced by the older George’s style and subject matter.

Fortunately for us lost deceived souls, Hicks decided to produce and to display his own brand of social commentating and irreverent comedy.

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The Wise and True Prophets of Comedy (Part 1): George Carlin

July 14th, 2010 4 comments

Carlin: The "Socrates" of comedy

Wisdom and Truth can be garnered from the most unlikely of places – none more so than the spectacle of stand-up comedy.  So I’d like to introduce you all to two such past comedic greats who can be considered true prophets of their craft.

The comedians in question were George Carlin and Bill Hicks, who both penetrated our conscience, and raised our consciousness with their pinpoint insights and observations into all the pretentious bullshit and hypocrisy that society propagated and continues to propagate – not to mention, provoking uncontrollable laughter at the same time.

Both Carlin’s and Hicks’ social and political views were considered controversial at the time – but controversy does not mean that they were wrong.

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