George Carlin - Pyramid of the Hopeless | Текст песни

• Тексты песен
• George Carlin
• Pyramid of the Hopeless

But, say what you want about America, folks! Yeah!
You can say what you want about Americans, you can call 'em smart, dumb, ignorant, innocent, naive, gullible. easily-led, whatever you want...
You're gonna have to deal with them, 'cause you're in the television business now! You've got the All-Suicide Channel on cable TV!
You need these people as viewers, you need people looking in! You gotta worry about your ratings!
You're gonna have to be thinking about sweeps months!
Most folks know what sweeps months are! Those are the more important sweeps - ratings, months of the year...
...when they pull out on the biggest attractions and their highest stars, trying to pump out their ratings a little bit, get their local stations to adjust their advertising needs...
You're gonna have to compete with the mentality of Network television! And I think, on an All-Suicide Channel...
During sweeps months? You're gonna have to go mass suicides!
Big, public events where hundreds of people kill themselves all at the same time, right on Live TV!
Never resting about the way to do this! I've 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 six months now, and I only recently having, so I'm gonna tell you about it... Now!
We're gonna have to get lots and lots of people to kill themselves on demand! How are we gonna do this? That's the question!
How are gonna get large numbers of people to commit suicide at a time and place of our choosing?
And I mean large numbers! Because don't forget! Besides sweeps, we're gonna have to be thinking about 24-hour a day programming!
So, to make this work, we need organization! We need a system! Can't just sit around the studio all day long and wait for people to drop by and commit suicide!
What we have to do is build a large pool of hopeless people!
Suicide volunteers! People with no hope! People whom society has given up on, faith 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! And we got our share of them, folks!
Think of it as a pyramid, that will give you a visual fix-on! Think of it as a pyramid! The pyramid of the hopeless!
We're gonna populate, or we're gonna create this pool, like I said, to send volunteers over to the suicide channel!
We're gonna start building this pyramid at the very base, naturally, and the bottom layer is gonna be... homeless people!
God knows we've got plenty of them! Nobody gives a fuck about them, nobody's got a plan, nobody's got any money, nobody's got a programme, nobody gives a fuck!
...about homeless people! We don't know how many we have, even! We now 500,000 of them are veterans, 'cause we're so good to the veterans in this country...
...and we know about 1,400,000 of them are children!
...so we got a million and a half children, then God knows how many more we've got! Totally fucking hopeless! In the pyramid they go!
And the next group we're gonna 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 in prison are in there for things they really did... That's not a bad average, one out of two!
But nobody gives a shit about these people, nobody's gonna hire them if they do get out! They're never gonna get out, rehabilitation doesn't work...
And the judges give them these fucking draconian sentences, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80, 100 years sentences, life-term, double life!
One guy, about a month ago, was given three consecutive life-terms, plus two death penalties!
How the fuck do you serve that

George Carlin еще тексты