The truth shall set you free

Steve Hughes

When sitting and watching great comedians of the past such as Bill Hicks and George Carlin, I often wonder where the audience of yesterday have gone? They sat and laughed at their jokes but a lot of what is often said by these men is no laughing matter, there is a point to it and the point usually is this, that the world is not as it seems and we the people have the power to change it as we see fit.

On a recent outing to London I had the pleasure of watching the enigmatic Steve Hughes. Like Carlin and Hicks before him, his show oozed satire and was under pinned with an important message throughout; that the world is run by blood thirsty war criminals that do not have our best interests at heart, that they want a war with Iran and will do all they can to ensure this happens. Unfortunately the whoops of approval and vigorous applaud were limited to myself and my two companions, in fact when Steve Hughes dared to utter the words "there will be a world war with the up coming intervention in Iran" someone heckled "No, there won't be!".
We felt the need to assure them that it was true, and so in true pantomime fashion my partner responded "Yes, there will!".

It seemed as though Steve Hughes' performance had a sense of resignation about it, to the fact that, for all his efforts to illuminate the lies we are told, the majority of people still do not seem to notice or care about the perilous road our supposed democratically elected leaders are taking us down. Hughes, like Carlin, seems to have reached a point where he believes there is no helping some people. He went on to say;
"Old people say things were better in their day, that's because they are right, I am old now and it was better in my day... I cannot wait for the aliens to come and take me away, for a pie".

The show was a visceral lambasting of the elites and their lust for power.

On the subject of Enya he reminisced about a show where a fan heckled that he in fact "hated Enya", Hughes mused that "George Bush is alive. Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Henry Kissinger and Tony Blair; these are real, life sucking, child killing monsters and this, is Enya. All I'm gonna say is if you are going to hate, hate positively."

With people like Hughes, Carlin and Hicks wrapping up these pearls of wisdom in shiny packages for the public to only take away and discard as they exit the theatres, is it any wonder these people lose faith in our ability to over come the propaganda machine? Britain's Got Talent, The Voice and all these other party pop, mainstream, processed production shows we must be switch off, they serve only to distract us from what is really going on and what is important in life. The price of not doing so is not worth thinking.