“It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.”

— George Carlin

I started to think about more graduate education. You know, more education, more opportunities, better pay (in my case any pay at all), benefits, status, appreciation, maybe enough money to walk around with so I had more than $20 in my pocket after being the victim of A Civil Death at the hands of a criminal D.A. in the Hamptons. I thought about Columbia, Harvard, Penn, NYU, and a few others. I wanted to talk to others about what’s really going on in the prison system and in our communities which are dumping grounds for those poor souls who are abused and then thrown back onto our streets. You see the problem, don’t you? I even told the so-called Graduate advisor at NYU that I’d like at least one professor who I would learn from to be a former inmate. He laughed. I was serious. I was pitching reform of the non-existent mental health and education system in New York prisons, after all.

Apparenntly, though, a lot of stupid people get in to those hot shit schools because they pay their way in for their kids or themselves — and the schools no longer have room for moderately smart people who live in the neighborhood. That’s why, heaven forbid, even Trump has a point. The Elitism is out of control and their policies are hypocritical.

But, I decided to test it myself. My kids all applied to NYU — where I got 3 degrees when they needed students — and the money. You know, before it became Elitist and accepted middle class and working class Americans — not just Europeans, Africans, and Arabians on International scholarships paid for by royalty or 501(c)3 liberals. So my kids applied. They’re smart but not “entitled.” They have the Stoic, Scandanavian values that believe “Its not what you say. It’s what you do that matters.”

They were all Wait-listed. In other words, NYU wasn’t getting any vig even though I’d spent a lot of time there, voted to support their endless expansions on the Community Board, and tried to be a dutiful alumni — but couldn’t afford it. After all, NYU’s endowment is $6 billion, Columbia’s is $14 Billion, Penn’s is $23 Billion and Harvard, fuggedaboudit, is at $54 Billion.

My kids went elsewhere.

I tried again just for myself. No go. It’s no longer for us, folks. The Little People. The evaporating middle class in a sea of billionaires who steal, anti-intellectual quislings who own the media, politically-entitled thugs, and celebrities — who can buy their way in. And do.

Varsity Blues now seems downright quaint.

George Carlin said it well.

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“There’s a reason that education sucks.
And it’s the same reason
that it will never ever, ever be fixed.

It’s never going to get any better,
don’t look for it,
be happy with what you got.

Because the owners of this country don’t want that.

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.

You have no choice.
You have owners.
They own you.
They own everything.

They own all the important land.
They own and control the corporations.
They’ve long since bought and paid for the Senate,
the Congress, the state houses, and city halls.
They got the judges in their back pocket.
And they own all the big media companies
so they control just about
all of the news and information you get to hear.
They got you by the balls.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying,
lobbying to get what they want.
Well, we know what they want.
They want more for themselves and less for everybody else.

But I’ll tell you what they don’t want.
They don’t want a population
of citizens capable of critical thinking.
They don’t want well-informed, well-educated people,
capable of critical thinking.

They’re not interested in that.
That doesn’t help them.
That’s against their interest.
That’s right.

They don’t want people who are smart enough
to figure out how badly they’re getting fucked
by a system that threw them overboard 30 fucking years ago.
They don’t want that.

You know what they want?
They want obedient workers.
Obedient workers.
People who are just smart enough to run the machines and do the paperwork
and just dumb enough, to passively accept all these increasingly shittier jobs,
with the lower pay, the longer hours, the reduced benefits,
the end of overtime, and the vanishing pension
that disappears the minute you go to collect it.

And now, they’re coming for your Social Security money.
They want your fucking retirement money.
They want it back,
so they can give it to their criminal friends on Wall Street.

And you know something, they’ll get it.
They’ll get it all from you, sooner or later,
because they own this fucking place.

It’s a big club, and you ain’t in it.
You and I are not in the big club.”

― George Carlin