Network (1976)

[Dave Monroe]

On 12/8/07, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:

> Ned Beatty tells it like it is ...
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_AI8mC8XucY

ou have meddled with the primary forces of nature, Mr Beale, and I
won't have it! Is that clear?

You think you merely stopped a business deal. That is not the case.
The Arabs have takeb billions of dollars out of this country, and now
they must put it back! It is ebb and flow, tide and gravity. It is
ecological balance.

You are an old man who thinks in terms of nations and peoples. There
are no nations. There are no peoples. There are no Russians. There are
no Arabs. There are no Third Worlds. There is no West. There is only
one holistic system of systems. One vast and imane, interwoven,
interacting, multi-varied, multi-nanional dominion of dollars.
Petro-dollars, electro-dollars, multi-dollars, reichmarks, rands,
rubles, pounds and shekels.

It is the international system of currency which determines the
totality of life on this planet. That is the natural order of things
today. That is the atomic, and sub-atomic and galactic structure of
things today.

And YOU have meddled with the primal forces of nature. And you will atone.

Am I getting through to you, Mr Beale?

You get up on your little tawny one inch screen and howl about America
and democracy. There is no America. There is no democracy. There is
only IBM and ITT and AT&T, and DuPont, Dowe, Union Carbide and Exxon.
Those are the nations of the world today.

What do you think the Russians talk about in their Councils of State?
Karl Marx? They get out their linear programming charts, statistical
decision theories, mini-max solutions, and compute the price-cost
probabilities of their transactions and investments, just like we do.

We no longer live in a world of nations and ideologies, Mr Beale. The
world is a college of corporations, inexorably determined by the
immutable bye-laws of of business. The world is a business, Mr Beale.
It has been since man crawled out of the slime.

And our children will live, Mr Beale, to see that ... perfect ...
world in which there is no war nor famine, oppression or brutality.
One vast and ecumenical holding company for whom all men will work to
serve a common profit. In which all men will hold a share of stock.

All necessities provided. All anxieties tranquilised. All boredom amused.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zI5hrcwU7Dk