Lyrics People Refuse to Be Realistic - George Carlin

People Refuse to Be Realistic

People just refuse to be realistic.
They don’t like to be realistic.
People would rather stroke themselves, you know.
Oh, they like to stroke themselves, don’t they?
Stroke themselves.
They stroke each other.
They get stroked.
They stroke the boss.
The boss strokes them.
Everybody strokes everybody.
It’s nothing but a big stroke job in this country.
The government strokes you every day of your life.
Religion never stops stroking you.
Big business gives you a good stroke.
And it’s one big, transcontinental, cross-country, red, white and blue stroke job.
Do you know?
Yeah.
Yeah.
Do you know what the national emblem for this country ought to be?
Forget that bald eagle.
The national emblem of this country ought to be Uncle Sam standing naked at attention saluting.
And seated on a chair next to him the Statue of Liberty jerking him off.
That would be a good symbol for the United Strokes of America.
It’s all bullshit folks.
It’s all bullshit, and it’s bad for you.