he says it in a very serious tone with no humor to it.

He said it with sardonic, dry humor. People still laughed. They didn't get mad, they laughed. They didn't go home and do research to see exactly how true it is. They didn't put it together as a massive conspiracy that has been going on for thousands of years. They didn't write up their research efforts in a way that people could actually see. They didn't understand that they live in the actual fucking Matrix.

They laughed.

Here's an example from a few seconds after your timestamp:

I'm talking about the real owners now, the real owners. The big wealthy business interests that control things and make all the important decisions. Forget the politicians. The politicians are put there to give you the idea that you have freedom of choice. You don't.

Audience laughs

People hear it, they applaud it, because on some level they know it is true, but then they laugh at it, because it's comedy. It's exaggerated. The cognitive dissonance requires that out.

I used to love Carlin, long before I realized the larger picture, the gravity of it. When the Twin Towers came down, I thought it was likely an inside job because the physics of it made no sense. But I thought it was just some corrupt people in the US government. I thought it would change with the next election.

It never occurred to me that there was a world wide web of control by an aristocracy and there had been for hundreds of generations.

It never occurred to me I lived in The Matrix, my beliefs given to me no matter which side of the fence I landed on on any particular issue. It never occurred to me that all sides were Controlled Opposition.

Carlin gives the truth in a way that we can categorize it as "life goes on" and we go right back into The Matrix. Your example is exactly what I mean. I heard it, many years ago, and thought it was true, but exaggerated. The real picture eluded me. It is only when you realize the scope of the problem that you can really understand it. If it's "just America," or "just this President," or "just the C_A," etc., there is hope that it can change.

Carlin himself says "it's been going on for 30 years" (paraphrased). That is not the true scope. If it's only been 30 years and it's only in America, that means it will change. We don't have to worry about it as much. It's a lot less frightening. But it hasn't been 30 years, it's been 3000 at least. Until you understand the scope of The Matrix, you can't see the solution, and what we all have to do to make it happen; the change in our lives necessary to bring it about. Without seeing the real scope, you can't get enough people to be motivated to make the necessary changes.

Thus Q, and all the shit in this Shit Show.

I came here to post this link. My great awakening started with this exact video "The Big Club" in 2016.

Before this video, I was caught in the illusion of choice between the democrat and republican parties. I honestly thought I had to choose one or the other if I wanted my vote to count. (Oh, how wrong I was!)

At the time, my mind contrasted this skit and the RNC convention in 2016. I realized the RNC was just one big club (same as the DNC, and actually both the same big club), and Trump wasn't in it (or planned to defy them if he was in it). I realized this when at the RNC convention in Cleveland, OH, no other republican president or republican nominee for president (except Bob Dole) attended the RNC convention. Even John Kasich, who was governor of Ohio at the time, and the host state, didn't attend.

I was thinking at the time, holy shit, BOTH the democrats and republicans hate Donald Trump with all their beings. It was at the moment that I went all in for Trump.

I realized we needed a bull in the china shop (pun intended) in DC. Someone that would go in and tear the illusion all down. Rip back the curtain and show the man working the machine.

Everything I have learned and most of the discernment I use today is based on my realization that a big club rules the country and rules the world.

Today, I personally believe this big club is run by blackmail of the highest order. The kind of blackmail that is so vial that no one in the club would ever speak about it. If they do, not only will they die a painful death like falling out of the top story of a skyscraper, but their children and grand children will be murdered as well. Remember the kid that was blown up in his car in Georgia? I think he was a staffer for Kemp or something. In my mind, that was a warning shot from the club.

This prism of view of mine sure seems to be accurate. Far more accurate than my blind eyes before being awakened.

The reason all of the Republican controlled state houses refused to investigate voter fraud, a political goldmine if they wanted to destroy the democrats forever, is because politicians in both parties are part of the Big Club. To investigate the other side is to investigate themselves. Something they would never do.

So all that is to say that George Carlin played a big role in awakening me. Not saying he is responsible for awakening everyone. We all awaken in our own ways. I spread that video in 2016 and continue to today because it made a big difference to me.

I think it's important to note that we all have our own awakenings in our own way. How we wake up doesn't have to be the same for everyone. What's important is that everyone wakes up.