The Illusion of Security

and that's another thing they don't like at the airport jokes you know yeah you can't joke about a bomb well why is it just jokes what about a riddle how about a limerick how about a bomb anecdote you know no punchline just a really cute story or suppose you intended to remark not as a joke but as an ironic musing are they prepared to make that distinction who I think not and besides who's to say what's funny airport security is a stupid idea it's a waste of money and it's only there for one reason to make white people feel safe that's all the illusion the feeling and illusion of safety because the authorities know they can't make an airplane completely safe too many people have access you'll notice the drug smugglers don't seem to have a lot of trouble getting their little packages on board do they know and God bless them too oh and by the way an airplane flight shouldn't be completely safe you need a little danger in your life take a chance once in a while yeah what are you gonna do play with your prick for another 30 years read People magazine and eat it wendy's till the end of time take a chance besides even if they made all of the airplanes completely safe the terrorists would simply start bombing other places that are crowded porn shops crack houses titty bars and gangbangs entertainment venues the odds of you being killed by a terrorist are practically zero so I say relax and enjoy the show you have to be a realist you have to be realistic about terrorism certain groups of people certain groups Muslim fundamentalist Christian fundamentalist Jewish fundamentalist and just plain guys from Montana are going to continue to make life in this country very interesting for a long long time that's the reality angry men in combat fatigues talking to God on a two-way radio and muttering incoherent slogans about freedom are eventually going to provide us with a great deal of entertainment especially after your stupid economy collapses all around you and the terrorists come out of the woodwork and you'll have anthrax in your water supply and sarin gas in your air conditioners they'll be chemical and biological suitcase bombs in every city and I say enjoy it relax enjoy the show take a chance put a little fun in your life to me terrorism is exciting it's exciting I think the very idea that you can set off a bomb in the marketplace and kill several hundred people is exciting and stimulating and I see it as a form of entertainment yeah but but I also know that most Americans are soft and frightened and unimaginative and they don't realize that such a thing as dangerous fun and they certainly don't recognize a good show when they see one I have always been willing to put myself at great personal risk for the sake of entertainment and I've always been willing to put you at great personal risk for the same reason as far as I'm concerned all of this airport security all the searches the screenings the cameras the questions it's just one more way of reducing your Liberty and reminding you that they can with you anytime they want as long as you put up with it as long as you put up with it which means of course anytime they want because that's what Americans do now they're always willing to trade away a little of their freedom in exchange for the feeling the illusion of security what we have now is a completely neurotic population obsessed with security and safety and crime and drugs and cleanliness and hygiene and germs there's another thing germs where the sudden fear of germs come from in this country have you noticed this the media constantly running stories about all the latest infections Salmonella e.coli hantavirus bird flu and and Americans are they panic easily so now everybody's running around scrubbing this and spraying that and overcooking their food and repeatedly washing their hands trying to avoid all contact with germs it's ridiculous and it goes to ridiculous lengths in prisons before they give you a lethal injection they swab your arm with alcohol - it's too at school well they don't want you to get an infection and you can see their point wouldn't want some guy to go to hell and be sick it would take a lot of the sportsmanship out of the whole execution fear adjourns why these you can't even get a decent hamburger anymore they cook the out of everything now because everybody's afraid of food poisoning hey where's your sense of adventure take a chance will you you know how many people die in this country from food poisoning every year nine thousand that's all it's a minor risk take a chance bunch of goddamn besides what do you think you have an immune system for it's for killing germs but it needs practice it needs germs to practice on so solicit so listen if you kill all the germs around you they live a completely sterile life then when germs do come along you're not going to be prepared and never mind ordinary germs what are you going to do when some super virus comes along that turns your vital organs into liquid I'll tell you what you're going to do you're going to get sick you're going to die and you're going to deserve it because you're weak and you got a weak immune system

Channel: iStateOfMind3

Views: 3,070,922

Keywords: yt:stretch=16:9, The Illusion of Security, fear, George Carlin

Id: ErZFgF0cjhw

Length: 6min 10sec (370 seconds)

Published: Sun Jan 27 2013