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I can't stop seeing what I see. Everyday on TV and in the news papers, at any church in America. No longer can I have an 'each person is free to do and practice what they please' out-look. Because I am the only one with that opinion. Everyone else is making laws telling me what to do. What business is it of yours what I do, read, buy, see, say, think, who I fuck, what I take into my body - as long as I do not harm another human being on this planet? Don't give me the line that those laws were put there to protect me, because they are not fucking working. I think everyone who reads this is a mostly good person. You do not hurt others for any reason. Yet you are told every single day by someone what to do. I wont have the opinions of others pushed on my anymore. I'm tired of it, are you?

Your TV is distracting you from your life. Perhaps I should rephrase that. Distracting you from what your life could be, because your television is your life now. Its your friend, your lover, your teacher. No matter what its there for you. Whatever you were going to do outside today you can watch someone else do it on TV. Sandwitched between Ad's for a bigger fucking TV. Watching your TV is like putting black spray paint over your third eye. Fuck the news. What do you care? Have you done anything about any of the awful, appalling things that happen everyday across the world? Do you even feel that bad? Have you ever done anything more than simply take a moment and think of those people you hear about everyday? Have you even done that? The greatest evil is the apathy of good people. Turn off your TV, do something. Anything is more productive than television.

Your religion is destroying your life faster than anything. It negates the importance of your life and mine, because this life isnt important. Your just passing through on to heaven. So who cares about the wars, genocides, starvation, and murders? As long as YOU followed the rules your going to be saved from it all. Just chill out in front of the TV wait for it all to be over. If you feel kinda bad, go to church. They'll tell you its all gona be OK.

We all have our lives backwards. None of this shit is important. You are important. All that other stuff is just a distraction. Its just a ride. Its just a movie.

"The world is like a ride in an amusement park. And when you choose to go on it you think it's real because that's how powerful our minds are. And the ride goes up and down and round and round. It has thrills and chills and it's very brightly colored and it's very loud and it's fun, for a while. Some people have been on the ride for a long time and they begin to question: "Is this real, or is this just a ride?" And other people have remembered, and they come back to us, they say, "Hey, don't worry, don't be afraid, ever, because this is just a ride." And we kill those people.
Go back to bed, America, your government has figured out how it all transpired. Go back to bed America, your government is in control. Here, here's American Gladiators. Watch this, shut up, go back to bed America, here is American Gladiators, here is 56 channels of it! Watch these pituitary retards bang their fucking skulls together and congratulate you on the living in the land of freedom. Here you go America - you are free to do what well tell you! You are free to do what we tell you!"

-Bill Hicks