Het gevoel dat ze uitzonderlijk zijn, drijft ze voort. Als je invloed en macht wilt hebben, moet je groots zijn. Dat is iets wat we in Europa van ze kunnen leren.
Geert Mak. Nu.NL. 22 augustus 2012
De jurist en bestseller auteur Geert Mak:
Waar blijft, in deze chaos van telkens botsende en elkaar tegensprekende verhalen, de rol van de historicus? Zijn werk is – en ik volg nu de definitie van de Amerikaans/Hongaarse historicus John Lukacs – in de eerste plaats ‘het streven naar waarheid door het uitbannen van onwaarheid.’ […] Woorden zijn voor de historicus dan ook meer dan de verpakking van feiten: het gaat minstens zozeer om de formulering, om de associaties die ze opwekken, ja, om het verhaal. […] Doen we dat genoeg? Nemen wij, chroniqueurs van het heden en verleden, onze taak, het ‘uitbannen van onwaarheid’, serieus genoeg? Zeker in deze tijd? Ik vraag het me af. Op dit moment vindt op Europees en mondiaal niveau een misvorming van de werkelijkheid plaats die grote consequenties heeft.
Geert, waarom begin je dan niet met het 'uitbannen van de onwaarheid'? Wat belet je? Of was het een vrijblijvende, consequentieloze opmerking om buiten schot te blijven? Lees hieronder wat de Amerikaanse cabaretier George Carlin over de 'waarheid' had te vertellen, en als hij de moed heeft het te vertellen, waarom jij niet? Om jou te citeren: 'Ik vraag het me af.' Je antwoord zal ik integraal hier op deze weblog plaatsen. Ik weet via een wederzijdse vriend van ons beiden dat je op de hoogte bent van mijn kritieken. Reageer eens op de woorden van Carlin, per slot van rekening ben je dit als bekende Nederlander en bestseller auteur aan je publiek verplicht. Hier George Carlin:
Forget
the politicians, they're irrelevant. The politicians are put there to give you
the idea 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 payed
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, so they control
just about all the information you get. They got you by the balls. They spend
billions of dollars every year lobbying - lobbying, to get what they want.
Well
we know what they want. They want more for themselves, and less for everybody
else, but I'll tell you what they don't want - 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. That's against their interests. That's right. They don't
want people that 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 they. You know what they want? Obedient
workers - Obedient workers, people who are just smart enough to run the
machines, and do that paper work. And just dumb enough to passively accept all
these increasingly shittier jobs with the lower pay, the longer hours, the
reduced benefits, the end of overtime, and vanishing pension that disappear the
minute you go to collect it, and now they're coming for your social security
money. They want your fucking retirement money. They want it back so they can
give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street, and you know something? They'll
get it - they'll get it all from you sooner or later cause they own this
fucking place. It's a big club, and you aint in it. You, and I are not in The
Big Club.
By the way, it's the same big club they use to beat you over the head
with all day long when they tell you what to believe. All day long beating you
over the head with their media telling you what to believe, what to think, and
what to buy.
The table has tilted folks. The game is rigged, and nobody seems
to notice. Nobody seems to care. Good honest hard working people: white collar,
blue collar it doesn't matter what color shirt you have on. Good honest hard
working people continue (these are people of modest being) - continue to elect
these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about you. They don't give a fuck
about you - they don't give a fuck about you. They don't care about you at all
- at all - at all, and nobody seems to notice. Nobody seems to care.
That's
what the owners counted on. The fact that Americans will probably remain
willfully ignorant of the big red, white, and blue dick that's being jammed up
their assholes everyday, because the owners of this country know the truth.
It's called the American Dream cause you have to be asleep to believe it, but
say what you want about Americans folks. You can say what you want about
Americans. You can call them smart, dumb, ignorant, innocent, naive, gullible,
easily led, what ever you want you're guna have to deal with them. You're guna
have to deal with them, because you're in the television business. You got the
all suicide channel on cable TV. You need these people as viewers. You need
people looking in. You got to worry about your ratings. Your going to have to
be worrying about sweeps months. Most people know what sweeps months are. They're
the more important ratings months of the year where they put on there biggest
attractions, and their hottest stars. And try to pump up their ratings a little
more. Get their local stations to adjust their advertising rates. You're going
to have to compete with the mentality of network television, and I think of an
all suicide channel, during sweeps months, you're going to have to go with mass
suicides - big public events where hundreds of people all kill themselves at
the same time right on live TV.
Now I've been resting with a way to do this.
I've been trying been trying to figure this out. I swear to God, this is the
truth, I've been trying to figure this part of it out for 6 months now, and I
only recent have it so I'm guna tell you about it. Now we're going to have to
get lots, and lots of people to kill themselves on demand. How are we guna do
this - that's the question. How are we guna get large numbers of people to
commit suicide at a time or place of our choosing? And I mean large numbers,
because don't forget besides sweeps we're going to have to be thinking about 24
hour a day programming so to make this work we're going to need organization.
We need a system. Can't just wait for people to come by the studio all day,
drop by, and commit suicide. What we have to do is build up a large pool of
hopeless people. Suicide volunteers - people with no hope. People whom society
has given up on, fate has given up on, or who have given up on themselves. Rock
bottom, dead end totally fucked up people with no hope, and no reason to live.
Have
we got our share of them. Think of it was a pyramid, that'll give you a visual
fix on it. The pyramid of the hopeless. We're going to start building this
pyramid as the very base naturally, and the bottom layer is going to be
homeless people. God knows we got plenty of them. Nobody gives a fuck about
them. Nobodies got a plan. Nobodies got any money for them. Nobody has a
program. Nobody gives a fuck about homeless people. We don't k now how many we
have even. We know 500,000 of them are veterans cause we're so good to the
veterans in this country, and we know about 1 million to a million and400,000
of them are children so then god knows how many more we got. Totally fucking
hopeless. Into the pyramid they go.
Now the next group we're guna put in here,
these are the people in prison with these long sentences they've been given.
Many of them deserved. I'll grant you that. I'm sure half the people are in
prison for the things they really did. That's not a bad average, one out of
every two, but nobody gives a shit about these people. Nobody's guna hire them
if they do get out. They're never going to get out. Rehabilitation doesn't
work, and the judges give them these fucking draconian sentences: 40, 60, 70,
80, 100 year sentences, life term, double life, one guy about a month ago was
give three consecutive life term sentences, plus two death penalties. How the
fuck do you serve that? Even David Copperfield can't do that shit. In order to
do that you would have to be a Hindu. Then you got the people on death row.
They aint going anywhere. In the fucking pyramid they go.
Now the next layer,
this group is self-selected - self-selected, and bit controversial to some ears
I guess. These are these people who claim to be depressed. Okay? Apparently in
this land of plenty. This richest nation in the history of the world (we're so
proud of saying that). Some super markets have a hundred thousand items in
them. We have 19 million americans claiming to be depressed, and some of them
take medicine for it. Sometimes the medicine for it makes one of them commit
suicide, and that depresses the shit out of the rest of them. Then you only
have these people that think they're depressed. They think they're depressed,
because they saw the commercial on TV, and the doctor looked like a good guy,
the music sounded kind of peppy. And what the fuck? Probably some of these
pills would pick me right the fuck up. Totally fucking hopeless mindset - in
the fucking pyramid.
Up at the very top we are guna put the people who are
truly sick. The terminally ill. Unforchanetly no hope for a lot of them.
Hundreds of thousands of them - no cure for what they have. Some of them
there's no cure, because no ones looking for one. Aint enough people sick with
it, so there's no money in the cure. Then there's people where there's a cure,
but they don't have the money for it. Then there's one who can, but they're to
far gone. Then there's one who can get the cure, but they have no social means
to get to it so these people aint going anywhere - they should be allowed to
commit suicide.
Boom!
Boom!
In the fucking pyramid they go.
Now think of what you
got here. Think of yourself as the executive vice president of programming at
the all suicide channel. Think of what you have to work with in the pyramid of
the hopeless. You have homeless, imprisoned, condemned, depressed, and
terminally ill, and I'm going to bet you anything in this depraved culture of
ours - bet you anything with the reality show mentality we have that on the all
suicide you could get 500 of these hopeless people to hold hands, and jump into
the grand canyon. I'll fucking bet you - I'll fucking bet you you can get this
done in this country right this now, for money - for money you got to give them
something. Oh shit. They're americans, they're for sale, give them a little
something.
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