Video: George Carlin on Politically Correct Terminlogies

The inimitable comedian the late George Carlin on politically correct terminologies.  (hat tip Lew Rockwell Blog)

Loved that punchline at 3: 42 

This poor people have been bullshited by the system into believing that if you change the name of the condition somehow you change the condition...

  

Mr. Carline's much missed stint reminds me of a gem of a quote from author individualist feminist anarchist and senior associate of Laissez Faire Books, Ms. Wendy McElroy: (bold emphasis mine)

The deepest form of social control is to govern what a human being believes is true and false, right and wrong. When you short-circuit a person’s critical faculty and moral sense, he will obey authority with no need for force because authority has defined who he is. 

Such control requires the monopolization of information. That is why totalitarian states establish compulsory state schools, throttle freedom of speech and the press, broadcast propaganda, legislate the Internet, and obsessively monitor what people say to each other. They need to eliminate any competition in the ‘truth business’. And, so, those who know the “Emperor has no clothes” are silenced by various means. 

The control of what is true and false can be called the democratization of reality. ‘Facts’ are manufactured by those who control information and, then, they are broadcast widely to unquestioning people who believe them because the ‘facts’ spew from authorities or the media. If enough people believe the heavily gerrymandered stats on unemployment and inflation, then the economy is not so bad. If the media is upbeat about the economy, then consumer confidence will turn things around. If enough people believe the police “serve and protect,” then those who cry ‘brutality!’ become troublemakers. If politicians are viewed as “public servants,” then they cease to be masters. Thus, what is reality becomes established by consensus.

What is reality becomes established by the consensus is exactly the message imparted by by Mr. Carlin

Quote of the Day: Voting and Complaining

I have solved this political dilemma in a very direct way: I don't vote. On Election Day, I stay home. I firmly believe that if you vote, you have no right to complain. Now, some people like to twist that around. They say, 'If you don't vote, you have no right to complain,' but where's the logic in that? If you vote, and you elect dishonest, incompetent politicians, and they get into office and screw everything up, you are responsible for what they have done. You voted them in. You caused the problem. You have no right to complain. I, on the other hand, who did not vote — who did not even leave the house on Election Day — am in no way responsible for what these politicians have done and have every right to complain about the mess that you created.

This is from comedian George Carlin (source The LRC Blog)

Black Holes Show How Limited Man’s Actions Are

From Yahoo.com

Scientists have witnessed the rare spectacle of a supermassive black hole devouring a star that had ventured too close -- an event that occurs about once in 10,000 years, they reported on Wednesday.

Matter-sucking black holes normally lurk dormant and undetected at the centre of galaxies, but can occasionally be tracked by the scraps left over from their stellar fests.

"Black holes, like sharks, suffer from a popular misconception that they are perpetual killing machines," said researcher Ryan Chornock from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts.

"Actually, they're quiet for most of their lives. Occasionally a star wanders too close, and that's when a feeding frenzy begins."

If a star passes too close, the black hole's gravitational pull can rip it apart before sucking in its gases, which are heated by the friction and start to glow -- giving away the silent killer's hiding place.

A computer simulated photo from Nasa (Yahoo/AFP)

Scientists can only watch in awe.

While it is true that contemporary scientists have been experimenting with man made black hole machine via the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) to study several theories which I earlier pointed out, such as the Higgs boson “elementary particles cause matter to have mass”, validity of the Grand Unification Theory (are electromagnetism, strong nuclear force and weak nuclear force a single manifestation?), existence of the superstring theory (quantum gravity) and dark matter and dark energy, yet they cannot explain much of why black holes exists, the role it plays, or how a catastrophic disaster (Armageddon) can be avoided.

Yet the solar system where planet earth belongs to faces the same black swan risk from black holes as any planetary or star systems.

As I wrote in 2010 (emphasis original)

Yes, you may forget the farcical anthropogenic climate change, because the forces of nature would be exponentially be way far far far far more powerful and potent than the outcome from any of our collective destructive actions.

Besides, as remarked by the scientists interviewed in the TV documentary program, like any part of nature, our world operates on its own cycle. This means that the “ice age” could be just around the corner in some thousands of years to come, while the sun will expire on its own, by running out of fuel to burn, in about 5 billion years, and that today’s “aging” earth, even without the sun’s demise, will likely meet its end on its own.

And the sad part is that there is nothing mortal man can do to stop it. Every species or anything else that is part of nature will cyclically become extinct.

What’s my point in showing this?

Comedian George Carlin in this video has rightly been saying that too much self importance has been given in what man can do over the environment, such that we make a political spectacle/fuzz out of it.

In reality, humans represent only an iota in the overall spectrum of the universe.

Also our knowledge has been severely constrained to comprehend nature in its entirety, in as much as even understanding human action, the digital age notwithstanding.

In short, parlaying limited and presumptive of knowledge of the environment into public policies are fraught with the risks of unintended consequences. The existence of black holes only underscores this.

Video: Earth Day Message Through George Carlin

Environmentalists will be celebrating their annual Earth Day festivities tomorrow, April 22nd. And a deluge of mainstream's politically correct and self righteous calls of "saving the planet", implicitly via social controls and the political distribution of resources, will surely hug or dominate the headlines again.

Yet the highly relevant, stirring, classic video from comedian George Carlin should serve as reminder of the folly of self-importance and of the delusions of grandeur from interventions from which the environmental politics of anthropomorphic climate change has been founded upon.

George Carlin on Airport Secuirty : One More Way of Reducing Your Liberty

(hat tip: Lew Rockwell Blog)

George Carlin on Saving The Planet

Some trenchant excerpts from comedian George Carlin [Hat tip Mark Perry]...

``Saving endangered species is just one more arrogant attempt by humans to control nature. It’s arrogant meddling. It’s what got us here in the first place. Doesn’t everybody understand? Interfering with Nature”

``We’re so self-important. Everybody’s gotta save something else…and the greatest arrogance of all is save the planet. What? What is this @#$%^ people kidding me? Save the planet when we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet! We haven’t learned to care for one another, we’re gonna save the@#$%^ planet? I am getting tired of that %^&#!

``I am tired of the @#$%^ earth day, I am tired of this self-righteous environmentalists, this white bourgeois liberals who think that the only thing wrong with this planet is that there isn’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos.

``Besides, environmentalists don’t give a $%^& about the planet, they don’t care about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they are interest in? A clean place to live. Their own Habitat. They’re worried that someday that they’d be personally inconvenienced. Narrow unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. Besides, there is nothing wrong with the planet.

``...there is nothing wrong with the planet, the planet is fine, the people are @#$%^&! Difference…compared to the people the planet is doing great. It has been here for 4 ½ billion years…

``We’ve been only engaged in heavy industry for a little over 200 years…200 year versus 4 ½ billion, and we have the conceit to think that somehow we are a threat, that somehow we’ll put in jeopardy….

``The planet has been through a lot worst than us…earthquakes, volcanoes, quake tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles, hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal wave, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring high stages….and we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference???!!!

``The planet will be here for a long long looonngg time after we’re gone, and will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, because that is what it does, it is a self correcting system…