George Carlin. Look at Agent Smith next to him trying to shut him up.
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He was a prophet in his time and I never recognized it.
He got a few things wrong. There is only one oil company and there has been for 150 years. There is one bagel company that is owned and controlled by the same people that own and control the one oil company. There is an actual conspiracy to control everything in the world, including the governments, it is not just "converging interests."
While I appreciate Mr. Carlin and think he is very funny, I think he may have been controlled opposition. I'm not sure he knew he was CO, but he was nonetheless. Otherwise he wouldn't have had such a large voice.
Speaking "the truth" in the way that he did causes the mind to gloss over the content of the message.
The Truth needs an outlet. If the Truth is fantasy (Hollywood), comedy (people like Carlin) or crazy (people like AJ), then it provides an out for cognitive dissonance. We can hear these uncomfortable truths and not worry about them because they aren't real (fantasy), or they are laughable (comedy), or we can dismiss them (crazy).
In the case of comedy, when we laugh about them it causes the mind to put it into the "not scary" category. If it's not scary, then we can ignore it. Even if we recognize some truth in it, it's not as bad as the comedian is suggesting, because comedians always exaggerate. Comedy takes the Truth and makes it less scary and overblown, thus not something to worry about. After hearing these uncomfortable truths, we can, the very next day, be perfectly happy to go about our business building The Machine that is owned and controlled by the same people the Comedian was vilifying the night before.
This is how the world is controlled. The Truth has an outlet (which it must), but it is not an outlet with clear, irrefutable evidence. It is a controlled outlet, that provides a path back into The Matrix for the inevitable cognitive dissonance.
Nicely put. Interesting take that I never really thought about.