George Carlin ~ The American Dream
Why Hacker News recommends it
Quoted as shorthand for cynicism about education and the American establishment.
What it is
A three-minute excerpt from George Carlin's 2005 special Life Is Worth Losing, in which he riffs on the American Dream and the education system, ending that you have to be asleep to believe it.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2014 to 2020.
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Cites doxydexydroxide · 2014-05 · on “Ask HN: living and working in US”
A 3rd Generation US born Citizen turns his back on the USA:living the American dream in Vienna, Austria: Lived in Silicon Valley for 20 years founding 4 companies in the process. I am an honest and decent person who was raped each and every time by my co-founders/investors. Only the soulless/ruthless succeed in Silicon Valley. SILICON VALLEY IS A TRAP! Everything is dried out and dead, including the people. Everything is about money, and everybody including your employer has their hands in your wallet. Child care is hideous. People are shallow and self centered. Homeless camps are everywhere, and there is no empathy/compassion for these older "former heroes of high tech" fucked over by the V
Cites mindcrash · 2015-06 · on “Why are American schools slowing down so many bright children?”
> the entire system isn't geared towards that George Carlin said it best: [this video] "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. Forget the politicians. They are irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choic
Cites monster99 · 2019-08 · on “Why America’s biggest charities are owned by pharmaceutical companies”
That's kind of the point George carlin said it best: [this video] The whole educational establishment is to create an ignorant slave class.
Cites som33 · 2020-06 · on “Fake SpaceX YouTube channel with 36k live viewers scams people out of money”
>Who exactly falls for this kind of scam? Uhh the same people who fall for the scam that was steam, uplay, mmo's, etc... aka it's irrational to buy software you don't own or control. If anything the modern software landscape is an idiocracy. Windows 10 "requires internet" (wtf?) I mean come on, anything that "requires interent" is a giant red flag. The steam stats prove we live in an idiocracy. Don't think so? Silicion valley tech companies are over the moon that the public bought into mmo's/drm/f2p mobile gambling games en mass. They finally are going to close the PC as an open platform, which started with merely renaming PC RPG's in the 90's and calling them "MMO's" then they started apply