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Merged George Carlin

Hans said:
In the late 18th century 85% of the wealth (mainly land) of the UK was concentrated within 300 of the wealthiest families. In France it was more disbursed but the same concentration was also true for other European states with money/land/power being concentrated in the noble classes. In other places the concentration of wealth was even more centralized.
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I can't remember if it was here or on another forum, but I remember someone telling a story about teaching a college history class. When discussing the wealthy European nobles of this period, the instructor asked if anyone knew how they had obtained their wealth. The class, almost in unison, responded "hard work".
 
Bubba said:
Suppose history teaches that powerful people (and madmen) tend to consolidate power.

I dont know if that is true, but it sounds like some human nature I've seen.
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It is. I don't think anybody would denie that. but still *politician* supposedly should know better still stand by trickle down and all that nonsense. Despite the evidence that this does not work. And never had.
 
Armitage72 said:
I can't remember if it was here or on another forum, but I remember someone telling a story about teaching a college history class. When discussing the wealthy European nobles of this period, the instructor asked if anyone knew how they had obtained their wealth. The class, almost in unison, responded "hard work".
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Well for many of their ancestors it was a task of warfare and political scheming which could be considered 'hard work', later generations had it a tad easier but still few nobles of the present time retain any great wealth or power. A few do but often from non-noble pursuits or of being in 'zoos'.
 
dudalb said:
OH, I think Carlin was by far the better comedian,but I do think both of them did buy into a lot of nonsense.
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Carlin was more philosophical and is not on record buying into the major conspiracy theories whereas Hicks promoted them. Orders of magnitude stands.
 
Joey McGee said:
Carlin was more philosophical and is not on record buying into the major conspiracy theories whereas Hicks promoted them. Orders of magnitude stands.
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Carlin agreed there should be a new investigation of 9/11, on video, while he was signing books in a bookstore. Just sayin, not that it proves anything.
 
Bubba said:
Carlin agreed there should be a new investigation of 9/11, on video, while he was signing books in a bookstore. Just sayin, not that it proves anything.
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Bubba you're significantly hanicapping yourself by not examining and rethinking claims before posting them. My favorite is when you said Randi lied about psychic dogs in a conspiracy to cover-up false positives in the paranormal. I mean, that's funny to me. So are comments like "Still cant believe that anyone thinks muslims did 911. Mental ****ers." the top comment on the george carlin video.
 
Armitage72 said:
I can't remember if it was here or on another forum, but I remember someone telling a story about teaching a college history class. When discussing the wealthy European nobles of this period, the instructor asked if anyone knew how they had obtained their wealth. The class, almost in unison, responded "hard work".
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Oh it was hard work, undoubtedly!
Just not theirs ;)
 
Didn't Carlin pride himself on being a skeptic? Just because he said some ◊◊◊◊ about some stuff ( ;) ) doesn't make him right. He could be dead-on on some things and full of it on others. As we all are, to one extent or another.

Part of critical thinking is critiquing and reevaluating your own position, especially in light of the evidence. CT'ers miss that part, perhaps deliberately, as they focus all their incoherent rambling "theories" and "questions" on the "NWO" or "the government" or "the Powers That Be."

I liked Carlin, but don't take his word as Gospel. I don't think even he would appreciate that (and not just for religious reasons ;) )
 
A lot of the time it's not what you don't know that hurts you, but what you know that ain't so.
That applies to conspiracy loons in spades.
 
fagin said:
So what don't they want you to know?

As I don't watch random Youtube videos.
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I watched a little of it. It's a rant about how we're all puppets of the power elite, and stuff like that. Carlin has been dead for over a decade, so I suspect that the novelty of the information is getting a little stale. It's like a few years ago the constant spam I was getting for the forbidden CD. Send away now and get the secret CD nobody has ever heard of full of secrets nobody is allowed to know. Or before that the big shiny mass market books of secrets nobody is supposed to know.

One is reminded a bit of the old Beyond the Fringe sketch about "the Aftermyth of War:" Please, sir, I want to join the few! I'm sorry, there are far too many.
 
Is this like that letter on the dangers of aspartame that makes a new email round about every 5 years? Carlin died a decade ago.
 
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