“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.” - George Carlin

“There is no America. There is no democracy. There is only IBM and ITT, and AT&T, and DuPont, Dow, Union Carbide, and Exxon. Those are the nations of the world today. We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr. Beale. The world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the immutable bylaws of business. The world is a business, Mr. Beale. It has been since man crawled out of the slime. And our children will live, Mr. Beale, to see that… perfect world… in which there’s no war or famine, oppression or brutality. One vast and ecumenical holding company, for whom all men will work to serve a common profit, in which all men will hold a share of stock. All necessities provided, all anxieties tranquilized, all boredom amused. And I have chosen you, Mr. Beale, to preach this evangel.” - Arthur Jensen – Network

By Jim Quinn of TheBurningPlatform.com - February 2, 2025

My level of cynicism about our governmental institutions, corporate institutions, religious institutions, and the world in general has reached epic proportions over the last several years, as I find myself believing nothing I’m told by authority figures, media talking heads, politicians, government lackeys, scientists, doctors, or anyone peddled by the MSM as an expert. I know the average American just wants to be told what to think, what to believe, and what to do, but I can’t bring myself to not think critically and question the blizzard of lies swirling around me on a daily basis. When virtually everyone you come into contact with on a daily basis believes the narratives spun by their overlords (and they are too programmed to know they have overlords), pretending to not notice their ignorance is exhausting.

Essentially, finding like-minded people to communicate with is relegated to internet interactions, mostly on my own website. I’ve thrown in the towel on trying to awaken my family and now former friends. Covid was the IQ test, and they failed miserably. My cynicism about our nation and criticism of those running the show flows freely in my household. I do find myself wondering whether I am being too cynical about whether Trump can reverse the downward spiral of the empire of debt he now reigns over. I am willing to give him the benefit of the doubt, like I did during his first term. I will judge him on his actions and outcomes, rather than his endless rhetoric.

I believe the quotes above capture the gist of the world we inhabit. The first is from George Carlin’s cynical, devastating, dead-on accurate American Dream bit, performed four months before his death in 2008. Carlin himself described cynics as disappointed idealists. His description of the American Dream and how the ruling class sees us as nothing more than cogs in their financial machine was an accurate assessment of the world in 2008 just before the Fed/Wall Street induced financial crisis and has become even more prescient in the in the years since this performance. The second quote is from the 1976 movie Network. It is the unforgettable scene, written by Paddy Chayefsky, where Chairman of the network Arthur Jensen (Ned Beatty) sets rogue anchorman Howard Beale (Peter Finch) straight about how the world really works. America is a corporatocracy and businesses determines what we should eat, drink, think, and believe.

Essentially, Carlin and Chayefsky encapsulate the dystopian nature of our society, accurately portraying who truly runs the show. Us peasants have no real impact on how the world operates. You don’t have to be cynical to acknowledge a ruling elite (the Big Club) are pulling all the levers, reaping all the wealth, and wielding all the power in our corporate fascist world, run by authoritarians. The Uni-party has been screwing us for decades, with the screwing accelerating at hyper-speed since the turn of the century.

Every Deep State purposely created crisis or fake crisis (Y2K, Dot.com, 9/11, War on Terror, Iraq WMD, Wall Street housing bubble, QE to infinity, CIA Ukrainian coup, Russiagate, Covid scamdemic, vaccine depopulation plan, rigged 2020 election, FBI/Pelosi planned J6 fake insurrection, Biden border invasion, Manchurian dementia patient presidency, $200 billion proxy war against Putin, and multiple assassination attempts against Trump) has the purpose of restricting our freedoms, taking away our liberties, curbing our free speech, pillaging our wealth, and a prelude to a boot stomping on our faces forever.

Carlin’s rant begins with his take on why education in the United States sucked in 2008, why it would never get better, and why the ruling class perpetuated this downward spiral purposefully as part of their plan to keep the masses ignorant, incapable of critical thinking, oblivious to how the billionaire class who control the system have screwed them over, and continue to screw them over. The average person is too busy running on the hamster wheel of life, distracted by technological bread and circuses, and being lured into debt in a fruitless impossible feat of achieving the American Dream, sold to them by media propagandists and highly paid shills for the business interests reaping riches from these unachievable dreams.

“But there’s a reason. There’s a reason. There’s a reason for this, there’s a reason education SUCKS, and it’s the same reason it will never, ever, EVER be fixed. It’s never going to get any better, don’t look for it, be happy with what you’ve got.

Because the owners, the owners of this country don’t want that. I’m talking about the real owners now, the BIG owners! The Wealthy… the REAL owners! The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions.

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. Thats 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 fucked by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago. They don’t want that!” - George Carlin

Carlin’s prescient assessment of our education system seventeen years ago has been manifested in the continued rapid deterioration of math and reading scores for the last decade, while spending per student has grown by 56%. The money, confiscated by the State from you and me through property taxes, didn’t go towards the education of our children. It went into the pockets of incompetent, lazy, greedy union teachers and their colossal organization of failure. Politicians and Wall Street siphon off their slice of this monstrous money pie.

Diversity, equity, and inclusion hiring, warping the minds of youngsters with transgender bullshit, and celebrating degeneracy, rather than learning math, reading, and real history, has achieved the desired result of the wealthy owners of this country. Obedient, dumbed down, passive, indoctrinated workers, living paycheck to paycheck, sinking further into debt by the day due to relentless inflation, which only benefits the banking cabal and the billionaire overlords, is exactly what they want . . .

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